“After listening to the speeches of our European colleagues in this room, questions about the sanity of external European elites really arise more and more. And hopes for a quick peace in Ukraine seem more and more illusory,” Nebenzia said during a UN meeting on Ukraine which was requested by European states.
The diplomat further highlighted that the Kiev regime has turned Ukraine into a bargaining chip in a geopolitical confrontation between the West and Russia.
Since mid-November, the US has been promoting a new peace proposal for Ukraine. On December 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin received US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in the Kremlin. The US representatives' visit to Russia was related to the discussion of the US peace plan for Ukraine.