Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes that a ceasefire in the conflict with Ukraine is a “path to nowhere.”
He explained: Moscow is not satisfied with “empty talk” about resolving the situation.
Therefore, in the current circumstances, in the opinion of the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a ceasefire would be a road to nowhere.
The road to nowhere
In his opinion, final legal agreements are necessary for a settlement.
We cannot be satisfied with empty talk, TASS quotes the head of the foreign policy department as saying.
According to Lavrov, so far Moscow has heard nothing but statements about the need to “come up with some kind of truce.”
He noted that the adversaries have already stopped “particularly hiding” the fact that they need a ceasefire only in order to “gain time to continue pumping Ukraine with weapons.”
During this time, they hope to “get themselves in order”, carry out another mobilization, and so on in the same spirit,” the speaker said.
A ceasefire is a road to nowhere. We need final legal agreements, the diplomat said.
Required context
He specified: those agreements that will record all the conditions for ensuring Russia’s security and “the security of our neighbors.”
At the same time, a context is required “that will, in an international legal manner, secure the impossibility of violating these agreements,” Lavrov added.
He pointed out that such agreements should first and foremost address the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis.
One of them, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says, is NATO’s violation of its obligation not to advance eastward, as a result of which the Alliance “aggressively swallowed up the entire geopolitical space” right up to the Russian borders.
The second root cause voiced by Lavrov is the “racist actions of the Kyiv regime” to exterminate the Russian language and ban the UOC.
