# LDPR leader slams Ukrainian attacks on civilian targets as bid to derail talks

https://mins.news/en/item/113077

- TASS, 2026-10-23 16:44 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2207097

> Leonid Slutsky, head of Russia’s LDPR party and a State Duma international affairs committee member, said Ukrainian drone attacks on civilian infrastructure in Russia showed the Zelensky regime was undermining negotiations. He said Russia had consistently viewed a negotiated settlement as the preferred solution, while warning that what he called the junta’s war crimes would not go unanswered.

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