Russian Chancellor, Serguéi Lavrov, questioned the impulse of the US president, Donald Trump, to reach peace in Ukraine due to the differences between Moscow and kyiv, In an interview with the US NBC chain published this Sunday.
In that sense, Lavrov noted that there was no planned meeting between Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and the Ukrainian, Volodimir Zelenski, and that key issues are still resolvedsuch as security guarantees for Ukraine and territorial disputes.
“Putin is ready to meet Zelenski when the agenda is ready for a summit. And this agenda is not ready at all “Lavrov said on account of a meeting that Trump claimed to be organizing on Monday.
No const greens
In addition, the chancellor suggested that Putin would not sign a peace agreement with Zelenski, whose legitimacy Moscow has questioned since the Ukrainian elections were postponed last year in the midst of martial law.
“When we get to the stage in which we have to sign documents, we will need everyone to clearly understand that The person signed is legitimate (…) and according to the Ukrainian Constitution, Zelenski is not at this time“He said in the interview that he was recorded on Friday and broadcast today.
Trump, who was seen a week ago with Putin in Anchorage (Alaska) and last Monday with Zelenski and several European leaders in Washingtonhas been trying to boost a meeting between Russian and Ukrainian leaders.
“They want peace”
However, Lavrov said the relationship between Putin and Trump has narrowed, since both leaders “They want peace in Ukraine“
According to Lavrov, the obstacle to reaching La Paz is put by Ukraine and European leaders who “They don’t want peace.”
“They say: ‘We cannot allow the defeat of Ukraine. We cannot allow Russia to win ‘. They speak in these terms: victory, defeat, etc. “, noted the chancellor.
Russia has been reluctant to negotiate the assignment of 20 % of Ukraine it occupies.
In a subsequent interview at the NBC, the United States vice president, Jd vanceHe rejected the idea that the Russians were manipulating Trump with his referee to arrange a meeting with Zelenski.
Vance said the Russians had already “made significant concessions“, including the recognition that Ukraine would have territorial integrity after the war, that they could not” establish a puppet regime in kyiv “and that there would be security guarantees for Ukraine.
“Of course, yet They have not reached that point, or the war would have ended. But we are participating in this diplomatic process in good faith, “said Vance.
