OREANDA-NEWS President Vladimir Putin said that the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky will be engaged in negotiations on the Ukrainian settlement.

"Who is the negotiator from the Russian side? It's obvious - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Well, when we sit down at the negotiating table and discuss each of the proposed points of discussion in detail, seriously. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on our part, and on the part of the administration, Vladimir Rostislavovich Medinsky is an assistant to the president, he has been doing this from the very beginning," Putin said.

"For current affairs, in order to organize all this work, an assistant is also included in the work - Yuri Viktorovich Ushakov, he is in touch with his American colleagues. But he alone cannot do all this, the Foreign Ministry must do it, and partly the presidential administration. This is a very large range of issues that need to be discussed and fixed, and correctly prescribed, and dotted up," the president explained.