Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said it was not easy to reach an agreement with the US about the key points of a possible peace agreement to end the war in Ukraine and that Russia would never allow itself economically dependent on the West.
US President Donald Trump, who claims to want to be remembered as a peacemaker, said repeatedly that he wants to end the “blood bath” of the three -year war in Ukraine, although an agreement has not yet been closed.
“It is not easy to reach a deal about the main components of an agreement. They are being discussed”
Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs
The minister’s speech came during an interview with the Kommersant newspaper, when asked if Moscow and Washington had reached an agreement on some aspects of a possible peace agreement.
“We are very aware of what seems to be a mutually beneficial agreement that we have never rejected, and what seems to be an agreement that can lead us to another trap,” Lavrov said in the interview published on Tuesday’s edition (15).
Kremlin said on Sunday that it was too early to expect results from the restoration of more normal relationships with Washington.
Lavrov stated that Russia’s position had been clearly defined by President Vladimir Putin in June 2024, when he demanded that Ukraine officially abandon his NATO ambitions and remove his troops from the territory of four Ukrainian regions claimed by Russia.
“We are talking about the rights of people living in these lands. That’s why these lands are precious to us. And we can’t give them up, allowing people to be expelled from there,” Lavrov said.
Russia currently controls just under one fifth of Ukraine, including Crimea, which Russia has attached in 2014, and parts of four other regions that Moscow now claims as part of Russia, a claim not recognized by most countries.
Lavrov praised Trump’s “common sense” and to claim that the previous US support for Ukraine’s attempt to join NATO’s military alliance was one of the main causes of war in Ukraine.
But the Russian political elite, he said, would not tolerate any movements that would lead Russia back to the economic, technological or agricultural dependence of the West.
The globalization of the world economy, Lavrov said, was destroyed by the sanctions imposed on Russia, China and Iran by the government of former US President Joe Biden.
Biden, leaders of Western Europe and Ukraine describe the Russian invasion of 2022 as an appropriation of imperial -style land and promptly promised to defeat the Russian forces.
Putin describes the war in Ukraine as part of a battle against the West, which he said humiliated Russia after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 by expanding NATO’s military alliance and invading what Moscow’s sphere of influence.
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