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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 25, ARMENPRESS. Moscow has decided to start contacts with Kyiv, and is ready for a dialogue with Kyiv, ARMENPRESS reports, citing "RIA Novost", official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said.

"The decision to start contacts and formation of a delegation was made very operatively (by the Russian side), it was publicly announced," Zakharova said at a briefing.

Earlier, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin is ready to send a Russian delegation to Minsk for talks with Ukraine.