# Kiev’s ‘exotic proposals’ for peace are merely imitation of peacemaking, envoy says

https://mins.news/en/item/30112

- TASS, 2026-08-24 01:53 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2176763

> Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said Volodymyr Zelensky needs more Western money rather than a settlement in Ukraine. He described Kiev’s “exotic proposals” for peace as a sham simulating peacemaking, and said European countries had promised it large sums to continue the conflict.

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