Alexey Polishchuk, head of the Second Department of the CIS countries under the Russian Foreign Ministry, said Russia is open to proposals for a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine conflict.

He also said that there is no hope that the West will change its approach to the Ukrainian settlement.

He said, “The current Kiev leadership is primarily a puppet of Washington, London and Brussels, and they have benefited from exacerbating the Ukrainian crisis. According to him, the West has not only used Ukraine to achieve the goal of a strategic defeat to Russia, but also to implement measures to weaken the economies of its competitors on the European continent. He also said that Russia was presented in a chaotic manner.

However, he said, Russia is always open to really concrete proposals on how to overcome the current crisis through political and diplomatic methods.