(Reuters)-Russia wants a long-term peace agreement with Ukraine that addresses what it considers the fundamental causes of the conflict, not a rapid ceasefire supported by the United States followed by a rapid restart of the fighting, a diplomat said Senior Russian to the Ria News Agency.
In an interview released on Monday, on the third anniversary of the tens of thousands of Russian troops to Ukraine by order of President Vladimir Putin, Russian Foreign Deputy Minister Sergei Ryabkov, said Moscow was behind An agreement with Ukraine that resists the test of time.
“We can greatly recognize the desire on the American side of moving toward a quick ceasefire,” Ryabkov said, according to Ria.
“But… a ceasefire without a long-term agreement is the way for a rapid resumption of combat and a resumption of conflict with even more serious consequences, including consequences for Russian American relations. We don’t want that. ”
“We need to find a long -term solution, which, in turn, must necessarily include an element of overcoming the fundamental causes of what has been happening in Ukraine and its surroundings,” Ryabkov said.
The talks between Russia and the US held in Riyadh last week, which, according to Moscow, agreed to work in the restoration of bilateral ties and preparing for talks about Ukraine, offered no more clarity about President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine, according to Ryabkov.
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He repeated Moscow’s position that he had no choice but to launch what he calls his “special military operation” in Ukraine – something that Ukraine and the West call a brutal war of conquest in the colonial style – because of what He said it was the “unbridled” expansion of NATO’s alliance to the east.
He also complained about what he called the Russian Language Population Rights in Ukraine, repeating an allegation that Kiev denies.