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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha issued a statement regarding Russia's repeated references to the “spirit of Anchorage.”

Sybiha said, “The Russians like to talk about the ‘spirit of Anchorage.’ But the facts make one thing clear: if such a spirit ever existed, it is now certainly dead.”

According to Sybiha, the lesson Russia should draw from the Anchorage talks is that no peace plan excluding Ukraine can succeed. “Every peace plan drafted without Ukraine is doomed to become a ghost and disappear,” he said.

Sybiha added that Moscow should “stop believing in ghosts,” stating: “Russia must respond to Ukraine's serious proposals to sit down at the negotiating table and end the war. The longer Putin delays accepting that he will never achieve his objectives on the battlefield, the worse it will be for Russia.”