Diplomat: Russia thinks China's initiative on Ukrainian conflict settlement is more realistic

Russia thinks China's initiative on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict is more realistic than Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's “peace formula," head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s 2nd CIS (the Commonwealth of Independent States) department Alexey Polishchuk told TASS on Tuesday, Report informs.

According to the diplomat, Moscow highly values the stance of Chinese colleagues regarding the Ukrainian crisis: “Unlike the categorical and dead-end ‘Zelensky’s formula,’ which is initially doomed to yield no results, Beijing’s initiative, based on the Chinese wisdom and dialectical approach from the overall view to details, is more realistic,” he added.