Sputnik skriver om att Rysslands utrikesminister menar att väst leker med elden och att man inte vill ha fred egentligen. Han radar upp hinder för eventuella förhandlingar och Rysslands krav för att gå med på en uppgörelse.
"Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expounded on the ongoing Ukraine conflict, Russia's continued commitment to a politico-diplomatic settlement aimed at removing the root causes of the crisis, and the overal shift towards a multi-polar world order in an interview with the US magazine Newsweek on October 7.
Restoring peace is not part of Ukraine’s plan, while its Western patrons continue “playing with fire,” oblivious of the dangerous consequences, stressed Sergey Lavrov in the interview for Newsweek.
“Zelensky has not revoked his decree banning negotiations with Moscow. Washington and its NATO allies provide political, military and financial support to Kiev so that the war would go on. They are discussing authorizing the AFU to use Western long-range missiles to strike deep into Russian territory,” Lavrov explained.
Russia’s top diplomat emphasized that the February 2014 agreement was ripped up by the US-backed opposition, then the Minsk accords were sabotaged and subsequently revealed to have never been fulfilled by Ukraine’s patrons, and finally the 2022 Istanbul agreements were “not signed by Zelensky at the insistence of his Western supervisors, in particular, the then British prime minister [Boris Johnson].”
Lavrov reiterated the prerequisites for a settlement listed by Russian President Vladimir Putin:
-complete withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from the DPR, LPR, and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions
recognition of territorial realities as enshrined in the Russian constitution
-neutral, non-bloc, non-nuclear status for Ukraine; its demilitarization and de-Nazification
securing the rights, freedoms, and interests of Russian-speaking citizens
-removal of all sanctions against Russia.
Since Ukraine’s Western patrons seek to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia, “we have no choice but to continue our special military operation until the threats posed by Ukraine are removed,” Lavrov stressed, adding that Russia “will take adequate decisions based on [its] understanding of the threats posed by the West.”"
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