According to him, the Kremlin team has “the clearest instructions to act within the framework agreed upon by the presidents during their meeting in Anchorage.”
Moscow still intends to seek to “eliminate the root causes of the conflict” with Ukraine, Ryabkov noted.
“We, without anticipating the results, proceed from the fact that maximum efforts will be made to reach precisely these milestones… The issues are voluminous, and today, probably no one will undertake to predict the outcome of tomorrow’s discussions,” propagandists quote the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
On the morning of February 16, Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that a wider range of issues would be discussed in Geneva than at previous rounds in Abu Dhabi (UAE). According to him, this explains the change in the composition of the Kremlin delegation, including the return of Putin’s assistant Vladimir Medinsky to it.
