Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Lavrov said that the Russian Federation requires Ukraine not to surrender, but to stop resistance. He said this in an interview with the Italian television company Mediaset, the text of which was published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
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“We do not require him [Зеленский] gave up. We demand that he order the release of all civilians and stop the resistance,” Lavrov said.
According to him, peace talks with Ukraine are not developing as Russia had hoped, because Zelensky has “seven Fridays a week” and he allegedly can change his position several times during the day.
“At Zelensky’s request, we agreed to negotiations, they began to develop. In March, at a meeting of negotiators in Istanbul, some outlines of agreements were outlined. Now they are trying to build negotiations in a different way. When Zelensky announced that he was ready for a neutral non-bloc status of Ukraine, we But after that, his ministers, the head of the Ukrainian parliament, began to declare that they would receive security guarantees, but they would retain the goal of joining NATO (as written in their constitution),” Lavrov complained.
He also denied rumors that the war could end soon. According to him, Russia does not plan to “artificially adjust its actions” to May 9th.
- This is not the first time Lavrov has made oxymoron statements. On March 10, at one of the press conferences, he said that the Russian Federation does not plan to attack other countries – and “did not attack Ukraine”.
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