The head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, accused Western countries on Sunday, August 24 of trying to “prevent” peace negotiations in Ukraine, when diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict are bogged down.
“They only look for a pretext to avoid negotiations,” he said in an interview with Rossia’s public television broadcast on Telegram.
He also denounced the position of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who “persists, raises conditions, statements, which costs an immediate meeting” with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
When asked about the threats of “Western countries to sanction Russia, if there are no negotiations,” Sergei Lavrov described them as “attempt to violate the process launched by Presidents Putin and Trump, who brought very good results.” “We hope these attempts fail,” he added.
Donald Trump’s mediation has not been, for the moment,
The mediation efforts of US President Donald Trump, who seeks to end the conflict in Ukraine quickly, culminated with a summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on August 15 in Alaska. Three days later, he received allies Volodymyr Zelensky and Europeans from Ukraine to the White House.
Despite this, the positions of both fields still seem to be irreconcilable. Russia launched a large -scale military offensive in Ukraine in February 2022 and currently controls about 20% of the neighboring country, including Crimea, annexed Peninsula in 2014.
While Moscow and kyiv accuse the organization of a possible meeting between their leaders respectively, Donald Trump announced Friday to “two weeks” to decide on their line with respect to this conflict.
Source: BFM TV
