"Most conflicts end with negotiations, but this requires seriousness on the part of Russia in this case.

What we don't see," Burns said.

once again stated that the war should end with negotiations

.

According to him, the negotiation process will speed up the supply of weapons to Kyiv until Russian President Vladimir Putin "understands that he cannot win on the battlefield."

In turn, German Chancellor

, in an interview with the newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung, emphasized that it is impossible to break the threads of negotiations with Moscow despite all the disagreements between the West and Russia on Ukraine.

The Kremlin has repeatedly noted that Kyiv does not make independent decisions and follows the directives of the USA and the European Union.

In a recent conversation with the French TV channel LCI, the President of Ukraine,

, said that he is ready to talk with Russia, which respects the interlocutor and which will return to Kyiv the territories that belong to it according to international law.

"It is with such a Russia that I will be ready to conduct negotiations, but not with the Russia that we have at the moment, with Nazi Russia," said Zelensky.

The last meeting of the Moscow and Kyiv delegations took place in Istanbul on March 29.

In November, Burns met with the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service,

, in Ankara .

Apparently, these were the first direct contacts at such a high level between representatives of the two countries since the beginning of the war.

The parties discussed nuclear threats from Russia.

At the end of the year, after a number of successes on the front of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, politicians and leaders of various countries are increasingly talking about the possibility of resuming the negotiations, which were suspended in May.

Moscow claims that the Kremlin is ready for negotiations, but without preconditions, including on the issue of annexed territories.