Zakharova: The US statement that "Russia refuses to engage in dialogue on the Ukraine issue" is a lie. US State Department | Russia | Ukraine
According to the Russian Sputnik News Agency on August 8, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zaharova said that the statement of the US State Department that Russia seemed to refuse to engage in dialogue on Ukraine was a lie.
According to reports, earlier on the 7th local time, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller stated that there have been no negotiations with Russia to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, and that this is related to Moscow's "refusal to engage in meaningful dialogue on peace issues.".
Zakharova wrote on the "Telegraph" social media platform, "What a scammer! They knew they had told Zelensky to end negotiations in April 2022, and they had initiated a ban on peace talks with Russia by the Kiev regime in September 2022. They had publicly stated several times over the course of a year that this was not the time for negotiations, but they still accused Russia."