Putin said Russia was ready to resume negotiations on Ukraine on September 21, but Ukraine thwarted the attempt with attacks on the elections

Brief retelling from RIA II

Russia was ready to resume negotiations on Ukraine on September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Ukraine offered Russia to resume negotiations again after it itself suspended the negotiation process.

During the election period in the Russian Federation, Ukraine attempted strikes, including launching over 1,600 drones across Moscow.

MOSCOW, October 1 - RIA Novosti. Russia was ready to resume negotiations on Ukraine even on September 21, but then Kyiv attempted strikes during the elections in the Russian Federation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The Russian leader noted that Ukraine offered Russia to resume negotiations again after the Ukrainian side itself suspended the negotiation process. Putin emphasized that Russia was ready for their resumption, but after the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

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“At least on the twenty-first (September - ed.) we are ready to begin the negotiation process. And what did they do? The elections themselves are not held and they tried to disrupt us. From the nineteenth to the twentieth of September, an attempt was made to break through the air defense of Moscow; over 1,600 drones were launched across Moscow. Without ceasing, they hit polling stations in other regions of the Russian Federation,” Putin said at the plenary session of the 23rd annual meeting of the Valdai international discussion club.

The head of state noted that during the election campaign and the continuous attacks from Ukraine on polling stations, six people who were members of election commissions were killed.

The Valdai International Discussion Club is an association of leading foreign and Russian experts in the field of political science, economics, history and international relations. The club was created in September 2004 on the initiative of the RIA Novosti agency, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and the magazines "Russia in Global Affairs" and Russia Profile. The club owes its name to the location of the first conference, which took place in Veliky Novgorod near Lake Valdai.