MOSCOW, February 22. /TASS/. Negotiations with Ukraine will be possible once people in Kiev understand their obligation to their people, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Russian media, including TASS.

"The point is not him (Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky - TASS). The idea is that the elites who currently dominate in Kiev must leave," Medvedev said. He stressed that then "completely different people should appear who are aware of their responsibility for the future of the people inhabiting this complex, still existing entity called ‘Ukraine’." "When there are such people, we can somehow negotiate with them," he said.

Medvedev stressed that Russia did not oppose negotiations with the Kiev administration, but the West has been unable to persuade its proteges to participate in this process.

"We did not refuse negotiations even with this clique, but you know what they did: they forbade these negotiations for themselves, and even the attempts of Western countries to push them in this direction have not yet been successful," he said.