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By launching a massive drone attack on Moscow, other cities and polling stations, as well as on specific individuals involved in organizing the election, on the main voting day, the Kyiv regime effectively disrupted the possibility of an immediate resumption of the negotiation process. … And now, as the president said, we will consider when those negotiations can be resumed.
The Kremlin’s account of what Putin told Trump on October 9: that Moscow had been ready to resume talks after September’s elections. The Kremlin had also said on September 23, three days after the attack, that conditions for talks were not ready. Al Jazeera carries a slightly different translation.