Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin representative, said that a settlement in Ukraine will be linked to a new security architecture in Europe.
The presidential press secretary stressed that discussing this topic with Europeans will be pointless if they do not want peace. According to him, because of disunity they cannot make decisions on time.
"This all slows things down. Will they find the opportunity and the strength within themselves to nevertheless reach some common denominator and act quickly - we will see. So far they have not," Peskov added.
On Thursday, President Vladimir Putin spoke in the Kremlin with US presidential envoys Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner. They discussed the results of trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi.
After that, the American representatives went to Dublin, where they met with Vladimir Zelensky and held consultations with national security advisers of Ukraine, Germany, Italy, the EU, France, Ireland and Poland.
Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov has said that European countries are trying to join the discussion on Ukraine, but they need to decide what they want: war or peace. At the same time, he noted that so far all their practical actions indicate precisely a desire to continue the conflict.