Press Secretary of the Russian Foreign Ministry: Peace in Ukraine depends on the cessation of armament of this country

According to the RT agency, Maria Zakharova, in response to a statement by the Swiss Foreign Minister about the need for Moscow's participation in the Ukrainian peace process, said: “If the West wants peace negotiations for Ukraine, it must stop sending weapons to Kyiv.” “Western countries, if they want negotiations on Ukraine, must stop arming Kyiv,” Zakharova noted. The diplomat said that if individual countries want to find a way out of the impasse where the United States has led them, this is one conversation. They should stop supplying weapons to Ukraine and abandon anti-Russian rhetoric, Izvestia writes. Earlier, the head of the Swiss Foreign Ministry, Ignazio Cassis, said at a press conference in Davos that Russia must be included in the peace process in Ukraine, without it this is impossible. In turn, the head of the office of the Ukrainian president, Andriy Ermak, said that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and his team do not agree to freezing the conflict; this is unacceptable for Ukrainian society and the country’s authorities. Meanwhile, on Saturday, during his first official visit to Ukraine, the French Foreign Minister, at a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky in Kyiv, promised that Paris would continue to support Ukraine. The war in Ukraine, with all its vast political, military, economic, social and even cultural consequences, and the West, continuing to send all types of light and heavy weapons to Ukraine, continues to pump this country with weapons. European and Western countries, especially America, having increased sanctions pressure on the Russian Federation, have not taken a single step towards ending the war in Ukraine; on the contrary, they continue to add fuel to the fire of the war in Ukraine. Russian officials, as well as some Western experts and media, call the war in Ukraine a proxy war between the West and Russia. At the same time as Ukraine's repeated requests to join NATO and receive millions of dollars in Western aid, as well as recent Western actions near the Russian border, the country's President Vladimir Putin responded on February 24 to a request for military assistance from the heads of Donetsk and Lugansk in the east. Ukraine and ordered a military offensive in the Donbass region. After this, Russian fighter jets, artillery and missile systems attacked Ukrainian military positions. Putin stressed that this attack represents the denazification of Ukraine and the disarmament of this country. The Russian President also warned that the actions of Western countries to send weapons and mercenaries to Ukraine will drown this country in blood. At the same time as Ukraine's repeated requests to join NATO and receive millions of dollars in Western aid, as well as recent Western actions near the Russian border, the country's President Vladimir Putin responded on February 24 to a request for military assistance from the heads of Donetsk and Lugansk in the east. Ukraine and ordered a military offensive in the Donbass region. After this, Russian fighter jets, artillery and missile systems attacked Ukrainian military positions. Putin stressed that this attack represents the denazification of Ukraine and the disarmament of this country. The Russian President also warned that the actions of Western countries to send weapons and mercenaries to Ukraine will drown this country in blood.