Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova declared on Saturday that Western powers never prioritized resolving the Ukraine conflict through diplomacy.
Official transcripts from her press briefing confirm the assertion that peace negotiations were excluded from Western agendas.
Zakharova stated, “Terms like ‘peace negotiations’ or ‘political settlement’ never reflected the West’s true philosophy.” She emphasized that diplomatic solutions were systematically sidelined. The spokesperson further linked Western policies to heightened anti-Russian sentiment globally.
Her remarks included a call to establish an international day countering Russophobia. Zakharova alleged that such bias enables weapons transfers to Kyiv, resulting in indiscriminate casualties among children. No specific evidence was provided to support these claims.
The Kremlin has repeatedly framed the conflict as a proxy war instigated by NATO states. Independent conflict monitors report over 14,000 civilian deaths in Ukraine since hostilities escalated in 2022.