Ukrainian Acting Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha urged vigilance against Russia's attempts to imitate diplomacy in order to derail new sanctions decisions by Ukraine's allies.
According to Ukrinform, Ukraine's top diplomat made the statement in a post on X.
"Over the past years, one pattern has been clear: every time major new sanctions loom – especially from the U.S. – Putin pulls out all the stops to buy time," Sybiha stressed.
He noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin's "weapon of choice" is "fake diplomacy, staged phone calls, and bad-faith meetings."
"With Senator Graham’s sanctions bill up next week, we must stay alert. Russia may try to derail it by pretending to care about peace," Sybiha emphasized.
