Sergei Lavrow, asked about the US-Ukraine negotiations in Saudi Arabia, where the 30-day ceasefire was proposed, stated that the United States wants to normalize relations with the US and "are ready for serious negotiations".
— U.S. president Donald Trump does not want to give U.S. safety guarantees to Ukraine ruled by Volodymyr Zelenski," said the head of Russian diplomacy. In his opinion, "US are now beginning to return to normality without anti-Christian ideas".
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Sergei Lavrov thunders over peacekeeping forces in Ukraine
In the context of the peacekeeping mission in Ukraine and the deployment of Western forces in its territory, Lavrow stated that Russia would "in no case accept the presence of NATO troops in Ukraine if a lasting peace agreement was reached."
“ Russia will avoid compromises that would endanger people’s lives,” he said.
During the conversation, he repeated one more time the thesis of Russian propaganda that Ukraine was liable for the outbreak of war. He besides referred one more time to the proposal of the French "nuclear umbrella" over Europe, which he called ridiculous.
