Matvienko: Dialogue with the West may resume after the end of the operation in Ukraine

On May 19th, the Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian FederationValentina Matvienko considered that the dialogue between Russia and the West can be resumed after the end of the special military operation to protect the residents of Donbass.

“I believe that there will be an opportunity to resume dialogue when we finish the special military operation, and I do not doubt ,for one minute, that this operation will be completed successfully,”Matvienko said in an interview with the Russian newspaper Izvestia.

Matvienko indicated that Russia is still open to dialogue, but not according to Western rules, but rather on the basis of international law and mutual respect.

Matvienko said that Moscow is open to a dialogue that would guarantee equal and indivisible global security on the European continent.

In turn, the President of the Russian Republic of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, affirmed that Russia is not an enemy of the Ukrainian people, expressing his confidence that after the completion of the special operation, good-neighborly relations will be restored.

“Once the special operation is completed and reaches its logical conclusion, everything will be restored in a normal, calm and gentle manner,”Aksyonovsaid in a television interview.

 “We are not enemies of the Ukrainian people, but of those who try to make us enemies of each other,” Aksyonov said.

Aksyonov explained that Ukraine had fallen into a state of dependence on the West and the Nazis, and that its authorities had engaged in sowing hatred over the past eight years.

O. al-Mohammad