Lavrov: West has completely exhausted Russia’s trust on Ukraine negotiations
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has stated that Moscow no longer believes the West is genuinely committed to reaching a negotiated solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Speaking at a press briefing on Thursday, Lavrov accused the West of pretending to support peace talks while openly issuing ultimatums and continuing its hostile policies toward Russia.
He noted that although Western powers have repeatedly called for dialogue, they have spent more than a decade deliberately undermining every meaningful effort to achieve a peaceful settlement between Russia and Ukraine.
“The West continues to make hypocritical calls for a negotiated solution,” Lavrov said. “Negotiated solutions were already reached in 2014, 2015, and 2019. There was also a negotiated agreement between Russia and Ukraine in 2022, but the West openly and publicly sabotaged it.”
He added, “We no longer trust the West’s declared willingness to find a negotiated solution. That reserve of good faith and hope has run completely dry.”
Lavrov emphasized that in every previous case, the West failed to honor its own guarantees.
“In all of these cases, the West’s guarantees were dismantled by the West itself. They all proved to be total lies,” he stated.
The Russian foreign minister made these remarks during a news conference in Maputo, Mozambique, following talks with his Mozambican counterpart, Maria Manuela Dos Santos Lucas.
Russia expressed appreciation to Mozambique for its clear understanding of the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict and for its principled, balanced, and responsible stance at the United Nations, particularly its refusal to allow the West to dominate the entire international agenda with the Ukraine issue.
Lavrov also warned that Europe is increasingly becoming a serious threat to international peace and security by continuing to supply military aid to Ukraine.
Despite various diplomatic efforts, including those backed by US President Donald Trump, no real breakthrough has yet been achieved in ending the years-long conflict.
Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine in 2022 to halt NATO’s aggressive encroachment on Russian-speaking regions in eastern Ukraine and to confront the pro-Nazi policies of the Zelensky regime.
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