MOSCOW, November 2. /TASS/. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's statements that his so-called peace formula is supported by more than 140 countries are another lie, a senior Russian diplomat told TASS.

"Speaking at the UN General Assembly in September, Zelensky said that his 'peace formula' is supposedly already supported by more than 140 countries. Of course, this is another lie," Alexey Polishchuk, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Second CIS Department, pointed out. He added that Ukraine and the US are attempting to use "deception and blackmail" to get the countries of the Global South to support the "formula."

According to Polishchuk, Kiev and Washington are "trying to lure new countries into their anti-Russian club, and at the same time to kill really constructive proposals, peace and humanitarian initiatives of other states."

Kiev is actively trying to promote a settlement plan proposed by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, which does not take into account Moscow's position. Relevant international consultations, to which Russia was not invited, were held on June 24 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and on August 5-6 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The most recent meeting at the level of national security advisors took place on October 28-29 in Malta.

"There is no practical point in such meetings," the diplomat stressed. "The so-called Copenhagen format is a mechanism invented by Kiev and the West to impose Ukrainian ultimatums. It is incapable of leading to peace," he pointed out. Polishchuk recalled that the Malta meeting was the third after Copenhagen and Jeddah. "Their added value is close to zero," he stressed.

At the same time, the senior diplomat pointed to the fact that at such meetings "unscrupulous techniques are used." "New participants are first involved in discussions on such seemingly neutral issues as food, energy, nuclear and environmental security, and then they [the supporters of Ukraine] pass it off as support for the whole 'formula,' the central element of which is the defeat and punishment of Russia," he concluded.