If the West thinks that it can drag Russia into a long process of negotiations on Ukraine, play out a scenario aimed at Moscow gradually losing the initiative during the special operation, then it is deeply mistaken.

Axar.az reports that the Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Sergei Shoigu told journalists about this.

"It is time for Kyiv to start thinking about the interests of its people. But unfortunately, so far we see the opposite," he said.

Shoigu noted that the Europeans are doing their best to prevent real progress in the settlement of the Ukrainian issue by putting forward unacceptable initiatives in the spirit of Copenhagen or Swiss formats.

The situation, he said, was partly reminiscent of the Congress of Berlin in 1878, when Europe tried through diplomatic maneuvers to reduce most of Russia's gains during the war with the Ottomans.