Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov In an interview with the NBC News station published on Sunday he said that The guarantor of the post -war security of Ukraine should be a group of countries consisting, among other things, the members of the UN Security Council (UNSC). According to AFP and Reuters reports, TASR reports.
Russian Foreign Minister in an interview declared that Ukraine’s safety should be guaranteed by a group of states, Among other things, members of the UNSC – the United Kingdom, China, France, Russia and the United States will consist. According to him, such a group could include Germany, Turkey or other countries.
“The guarantors would guarantee the safety of Ukraine, which must be neutral, must not be a member of any military block and must not own nuclear weapons,” The Russian Foreign Ministry quoted Lavrova. He added that for Russia, Ukraine’s membership in the North Atlantic Alliance is unacceptable and that Moscow is asking guarantees to protect Russian -speaking people in Ukraine. According to Lavrov, there is also a discussion of territorial changes between Moscow and Kiev.
Lavrov for NBC News also said that Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump also talked to the summit in Alaska. According to him, Putin drew attention to the unsuccessful negotiations in Istanbul in 2022 during the discussion, where Russia and Ukraine discussed the permanent neutrality of Kiev in exchange for security guarantees from five permanent members of the UNSC.
Reuters reported last week that Putin demands from Ukraine to give up the whole Donbas region, renounces the ambition to enter NATO, remained neutral and did not let it into its territory of the western countries troops. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Greenable on Sunday alongside Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that The presence of foreign troops in Ukraine after the end of the war is important for Kiev.
