Pavel Knyazev, an ambassador at large of the Russian Foreign Ministry and sous-sherpa of Russia in BRICS, told Sputnik on Friday that Russian partners within the BRICS bloc understood the futility of discussing the settlement of the Ukraine conflict without Moscow.
"About this initiative - this is, as you know, an attempt to promote the ultimatums that Zelensky is proposing and the line that his patrons in the West are promoting. Everyone, including our BRICS partners, understands the futility of such discussions of the situation in Ukraine or a settlement between Ukraine and Russia without Russia," Knyazev said, commenting on the meeting in the Denmark's capital Copenhagen.
Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's office, said on Sunday that national security and political advisers from Brazil, Canada, Denmark, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Italy, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States, Turkey and Japan attended a meeting in Copenhagen to discuss the settlement of the Ukraine conflict, adding that the sides agreed to continue consultations in this format. Yermak also said that Ukraine wanted to host a so-called global peace summit for the discussion of Kiev's peace plan.