The State Duma called the EU's position on negotiations an attempt to jump into the last carriage

The EU's desire to join negotiations to resolve the conflict in Ukraine resembles an attempt to jump into the last carriage of a departing train. This was announced on November 15 by Mikhail Sheremet, a State Duma deputy from the Crimean region.

"Europe, which stubbornly resisted any peaceful negotiation processes, is now persistently rushing to the round table of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine and is literally trying to jump into the last carriage of the departing train so as not to remain on the sidelines of history," the parliamentarian said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The MP also expressed the opinion that Western Europe has lost its role as a major international decision-making center. He described it as an association faced with intrigues, scandals, military provocations and economic decline.

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On November 15, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the issue of European security and the settlement in Ukraine two things of the same whole that cannot exist without each other. He acknowledged that at some point Europe will have to participate in discussions, but they will be useless if it does not want peace.