Ukraine is ready for any consultations with Russia involving international mediators, including on the issue of settling the situation in the country. "Ukraine is ready for consultations both bilaterally with the Russian side and involving international mediators from the EU and the U.S.," the director of the ministry's information policy department, Yevhen Perebyinis, told Interfax-Ukraine on April 8.
As reported, on April 8, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the possibility of holding direct talks between the United States, Russia, the EU and Ukraine to find a peaceful solution to the crisis in Ukraine.
“The ministers all discussed convening direct talks within the next ten days between Ukraine, Russia, the United States, and the EU to try to de-escalate the tensions,” U.S. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said at a briefing in Washington on April 7.
Lavrov declared his readiness for such talks, noting the need to achieve certainty concerning this event’s format and its agenda.
