Moscow Dismisses Poroshenko's Claims About US Canceling All Meetings With Russia

Moscow Dismisses Poroshenko's Claims About US Canceling All Meetings With Russia

No meetings between Russian and US officials were planned or canceled recently, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik on Tuesday, commenting on remarks by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th February, 2019) No meetings between Russian and US officials were planned or canceled recently, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik on Tuesday, commenting on remarks by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

Poroshenko earlier claimed that the United States canceled all meetings with Russian officials because of the incident in the Kerch Strait. The Ukrainian president cited his conversation with US Vice President Mike Pence on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

"No meetings with the American delegation or American representatives were planned, canceled, requested or confirmed," Zakharova said.

"Now the question is: who is lying? Either Poroshenko lied about what Pence actually said to him. Or was it Pence who lied to Poroshenko?" she added.