Sergei Lavrov accused Western countries of seeking to obstruct peace negotiations for Ukraine, as diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict remain on a knife’s edge. “All they do is look for a pretext to prevent negotiations,” the Russian Foreign Minister said in an interview broadcast on public television via the Telegram app.
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The Russian Foreign Minister also criticized the position of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky who, he said, “insists, sets conditions, demands at all costs an immediate meeting” with Vladimir Putin.
Responding to a question about Western countries’ threats “to impose sanctions on Russia if there are no negotiations,” Sergei Lavrov characterized them as “an attempt to undermine the process initiated by Presidents Putin and Trump, which produced very good results.” “We hope that these efforts will fail,” he added.
