Putin adviser says only Russia and US should participate in Ukraine talks

MOSCOW, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Nikolai Patrushev, a hawkish adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday that only Russia and the United States should be involved in any negotiations on a settlement for Ukraine.

"I believe that negotiations on Ukraine should be conducted between Russia and the United States without the participation of other Western countries. There is nothing to talk about with London and Brussels," Patrushev told the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.

(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Lucy Papachristou
Editing by Andrew Osborn)

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