Kremlin: Prospects for Putin-Poroshenko summit fading after Donetsk head’s murder
Russian Politics & Diplomacy
September 07, 2018, 17:32
TEHERAN, September 7. /TASS/. Prospects for a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko started fading after the assassination of Alexander Zakharchenko, the Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed unrecognized Donetsk People’s Republic, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
"There are no topics for contacts [between Putin and Poroshenko] for the time being," he said. "The prospects for the contacts are getting fewer after these events [Zakharchenko’s assassination]."
"As we’ve said already, these events entailed rather deplorable consequences," Peskov said.