ST. PETERSBURG, August 4. /TASS/. Moscow is open to negotiations on Ukraine provided there is a constructive and mature approach from Western countries, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin told TASS.

"We are always ready for negotiations and open to a negotiated solution, we have repeatedly demonstrated this. It was the other side, the Ukrainian side, that withdrew from the talks, it would pull out, then forbid itself from engaging in them, behaving, to put it very mildly, inconsistently," he said.