Zelenskyy Playing A ‘Game’ Over Call To Meet Putin, EU Prolonging Conflict: Lavrov | World News

Russia accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of playing “play” despite questioning his “legitimacy”, while trying to extend the conflict of European supporters, unlike US President Donald Trump, who supported European supporters, a diplomatic solution.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also said that his country was not interested in seizing Ukrainian territory, but Ethnic Russians and Russian -speaking people want to protect Kiev from “persecution”.

Considering that Russia is the “actual president of the regime kiev in Kiev, Russia is open to meeting with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, but Lavrov could only be signed by a legitimate representative of Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin and Zelensky did not ignore direct talks, “provided that this meeting really decides something”, but said that the foundation for such negotiations is not in place.

Acknowledging that Zelensky is the “actual president of the regime, Lavrov said,“ Who will sign the agreement on the Ukrainian side is very serious and Moscow would need a very clear understanding by everyone.

RT reported that Zelensky’s presidential term ended more than a year ago and refused to make a new election by talking about martial law.

Lavrov also claimed that Zelensky’s call for a meeting with Putin was “basically a game” and a way to strengthen the suspicious legitimacy of the Ukrainian leader.

“A very good game (horse) because he wants theater in everything he does. He doesn’t care about matter,” he said.

However, by referring to the cases where Zelensky directly challenged Trump, he questioned the effectiveness of such meetings that would not give any results.

“Zelensky said no to everything … He clearly stated that no one can forbid NATO from joining … He clearly stated that he would not argue a region.”

The Russian Minister also accused Ukraine’s European allies of asking for a continuation of the conflict in Ukraine, unlike the US President, “which seems to have really adopted the path of diplomacy.

He said that several European leaders reacted to the unprecedented summit between presidents in Alaska, Putin and Trump, as well as their discourses were still on the path of war during a few days later.

Lavrov told the NBC in his statement, “This is the reaction of European representatives.

Meanwhile, the Minister said that President Trump has chosen an alternative approach that attracted Russia’s respect for defending “American national interests”.

Lavrov said, “What… They are arguing among themselves, it is not a secret. We want peace in Ukraine. President Trump wants peace in Ukraine.”

He remembered how Russia and Ukraine approached a peace agreement at the beginning of the conflict during the talks in Istanbul, but at that time, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and several officials from the Joe Biden administration in the United States, French and the Germans, condemned it.

In an interview with the NBC, Lavrov asked if there was the only concession in which Moscow’s military attack was prepared: “We are not interested in regions. We have the largest region in the world.”

“We are worried… The people whose ancestors live there for centuries.”

Lavrov said that Moscow’s aim was to “remove any security threat to Russia from the Ukrainian region” and “to protect the rights of ethnic Russian and Russian -speaking people who believe that they belong to Russian culture and Russian history”.

Meanwhile, Zelensky rejected the US calls for withdrawing the Crimea claim or to make any regional concessions to Russia on Sunday.

In a speech marked by Ukraine’s Independence Day, he promised to take back the peninsula and won the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, which were included in Russia in 2022 with Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.

Zelensky, the place of the 2014 coup at a address taken in Maidan Square, “zero kilometers, a starting point where the distances to the cities of Ukraine are marked – Donetsk, Lugansk, Crimea,” he said.

“All this is Ukraine… And no temporary profession can change it. One day we will be together as a country again. This is just a matter of time,” he said.

While mediating the peace efforts between Moscow and Kiev, President Trump revealed the idea of ​​“black swaps ,, but he made it clear that Kiev would not regain this scenario as” impossible “.

It was reported that the region was on the agenda during the negotiations between Zelensky and Trump and chose EU leaders who followed the Alaska Summit at the beginning of this week, but the Ukrainian leader rejected proposals for the region.

“Ukraine will never have to have the shame that the Russians call ‘reconciliation’ in history,” Sunday said in a statement on Sunday. He said.