Vladimir Zelensky said in an interview that Russia is afraid of direct negotiations. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova recalled a joke about a moth.
"It reminded me of an anecdote about the story of a little moth: "I flew around the room for the first time yesterday, people clapped me so much, clapped so much!", Maria Zakharova wrote in the telegram channel.
So the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to Vladimir Zelensky's statement to the Associated Press. He said that the Russian leadership is allegedly afraid of direct negotiations with Kiev. Although the Ukrainian authorities have forbidden themselves to negotiate with Moscow.

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