Russia offered an alternative to the talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian President Volodymyr Putin after the Ukrainian side officially rejected them.
This was stated by Radfed speaker Valentina Matvienko.
In particular, Matvienko invited the Verkhovna Rada to sit down at the negotiating table, stressing that "Russia advocates a peaceful settlement of the crisis."
"Let's sit down at the negotiating table today on the site of the parliamentary "twenty": the parliament of Russia, the parliament of Ukraine. Let's try to understand each other, find agreements," she said.