MOSCOW: Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that it was not simple to agree with the USA on the important thing components of a doable peace deal to finish the battle in Ukraine and that Russia would by no means once more permit itself to rely economically on the West.
US President Donald Trump, who says he needs to be remembered as a peacemaker, has repeatedly stated he needs to finish the “massacre” of the three-year battle in Ukraine, although a deal has but to be agreed.
“It isn’t simple to agree the important thing elements of a settlement. They’re being mentioned,” Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov stated in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper when requested if Moscow and Washington had settlement on some points of a doable peace deal.
“We’re effectively conscious of what a mutually useful deal seems to be like, which we’ve by no means rejected, and what a deal seems to be like that might lead us into one other entice,” Lavrov stated within the interview revealed in Tuesday’s version.
The Kremlin on Sunday stated that it was too early to count on outcomes from the restoration of extra regular relations with Washington.
Lavrov stated that Russia’s place had been set out clearly by President Vladimir Putin in June 2024, when Putin demanded Ukraine should formally drop its NATO ambitions and withdraw its troops from the whole thing of the territory of 4 Ukrainian areas claimed by Russia.
“We’re speaking concerning the rights of the individuals who dwell on these lands. That’s the reason these lands are expensive to us. And we can not give them up, permitting folks to be kicked out of there,” Lavrov stated.
