Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that the West's expectations of the Ukrainian counteroffensive failed in execution.

Moscow.- “New rhetoric has sounded from Washington and Brussels: the issue of negotiations on a peaceful settlement in Ukraine depends entirely on Zelensky,” Volodin commented.

The Russian representative commented that initially, the vision of the West was the resolution of the conflict on ‘the battlefield’. “Zelensky promised victory. The result disappointed the Western sponsors,” he argued.

According to the deputy, the national political situation in the United States and the European Union forced his officials to react this way and ignore the defeat of their strategy.

“US citizens and Europeans began to express their position on the events in Ukraine. They are not ready to pay out of their pocket for the policy of war on the eve of winter,” Volodin sentenced. (PL)