Moscow, 'the willingness to dialogue on Kiev has emerged with Paris' - Breaking news. In the first phone call since October 2022, Russian Defense Minister Serghei Shoigu and his French counterpart Sebastien Lecornu discussed the possibility of talks on the Ukrainian conflict.

" availability for dialogue on Ukraine was noted. The starting points could be based on the Istanbul Peace Initiative," the Moscow ministry said. However, France denied the reconstruction put forward by Russia on the conversation between the two ministers.