"The Russian Federation is a country that is really interested in settling this [Ukrainian] crisis. All of these other plans of increasing sanctions, isolation, delivering weapons, and so on, all of these steps that are being taken, unfortunately, are reversing everything and destabilizing the situation in Ukraine," Peskov said.
At the moment, the West is divided over the issue of lethal weapons deliveries to Kiev, with Washington considering the move, while Germany and France are in favor of exclusively diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis.
Russia, alongside Ukraine, Germany and France, will make another attempt at settling the conflict in Ukraine on Wednesday, when the four countries' leaders will meet for the Normandy format negotiations.
