Savchenko was not main issue at Putin's talks with Kerry, Steinmeier – Kremlin spokesman
The issue of Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko was brought up during German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier's and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's recent visits to Moscow, but this was not the main issue on the agenda of these talks, says Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov.
"Kerry did not come to Moscow to press on [Russian President Vladimir] Putin regarding Savchenko. It is hardly possible to prioritize the Savchenko theme at such negotiations. It's true, though, that both German Foreign Minister [Frank-Walter] Steinmeier, who had visited the day before, and [U.S.] Secretary of State [John] Kerry did touch upon this issue," Peskov said in an interview in the Right to Know program to be shown on the TV Center television channel on Saturday evening, a fragment of which is available on the channel's website.
"There is agitation verging on hysteria in Kyiv" regarding Savchenko's future, Peskov said.
"I would qualify this as a side-effect of the general Russophobic hysteria that exists there, and this reaction is absolutely not conducive to the resolution of this problem but makes it much harder to resolve. Such issues are not discussed and not resolved amid such a noise. We deeply regret that there is such hysteria. This makes the resolution of this problem a much more complicated process. Such matters are settled much easier in silence," Peskov said.