Moscow is ready for negotiations to resolve the situation around Ukraine.

Axar.az reports that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated this in an interview with RIA Novosti.

According to him, negotiations should be aimed at eliminating the root causes of the crisis and take into account the real situation "on the ground".

Both the current and the incoming US administrations have all the levers to launch negotiations on the Ukrainian issue.

"If Washington really wanted to end the conflict, it would have stopped supplying weapons to Kyiv. Kyiv and the West need to discuss the possibility of establishing a ceasefire in Ukraine in order to get a respite to increase the potential of the Ukrainian Armed Forces; this is a dead end," he stated.