🎙 Highlights from Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin's interview to Rossiya Segodnya International Media Group • The terrorist tactics against civilians and non-military facilities in our country, chosen by Kiev amid its failures on the battlefield, have indeed narrowed the scope for a political and diplomatic settlement of the crisis [...] The Kiev regime has objectively weakened its negotiating position. • At the negotiating table, we have always been ready to discuss the complete and irreversible elimination of the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict. If, however, the negotiating process is being used as an attempt to buy time, secure a respite on the battlefield and build up military capabilities, we will not agree to such contacts. • We are dealing with a situation in which Western sponsors are effectively exercising external control over the territories held by Kiev, fully funding the Zelensky regime and effectively depriving Ukraine of its genuine legal personality. These sponsors continue to work towards escalating the conflict. • None of the leaders of NATO countries condemns the terrorist attacks carried out by the Ukrainian troops against Russian civilians, including women and children. Given that, it is difficult to discuss possible pathways to peace. • The EU continues its destructive policy of supplying the Kiev regime with weapons and imposing sanctions pressure on our country that is illegitimate under international law. European leaders voice nothing but demands directed at our country, without any willingness to engage in an honest discussion of Russia's concerns. • The EU's talk about negotiations is aimed at achieving a single objective – securing a respite for Kiev from the fighting. The ultimate goal remains unchanged: to preserve Ukraine as a foothold for further confrontation with Russia. Such an approach is unacceptable to Moscow.