Western Powers Blocking Ukraine Peace Talks? Russia’s Foreign Minister Explains Why ‘Attempts Will Fail’ | World News

Moscow (Russia): Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Western countries of deliberately trying to intentionally prevent peace negotiations with Ukraine. Speaking to TASS (Russia’s news agency) on Sunday, he warned that his attempt to remove the diplomatic process from the rail would eventually fail.

Initially, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump said that the diplomatic attempt initiated at the Alaska Summit was productive. The Minister added that his efforts to block negotiations will be “prevented”.

“They just seek an excuse to prevent negotiations, and they want it to happen without their mistakes, but they are also stubbornly demanding a meeting with Putin, regardless of the error of Zelensky, who is stubborn (Vladimir). [This is] Basically, the attempt to break the process determined by the presidents Putin and Trump, we hope that these initiatives will be prevented. ”

Lavrov remembered Putin’s describing the Alaska summit as “productive, and emphasized the need to“ turn the page ”and continue cooperation between Russia and the United States.

Following the summit on August 15, follow -up meetings on Ukraine were held on 19 August in Washington. These discussions focused on the consequences of the summit, Trump’s interaction with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders and post -war security guarantees for Ukraine.

Lavrov also criticized Zelensky for “changing the focus” from the local issues in Ukraine, especially the treatment of the Russian language and the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The Russian Foreign Minister argued that the laws of Ukraine that prohibited the Russian language and suppressing the canonical church constitute the “gross violations of the UN Charter”.

He said that the abolition of these laws should be the first step to solve the conflict regardless of Zelensky’s stance.

“Russia will not be the language of the state. However, if we talk in general, no one insists on this issue. Zelensky or someone else’s first step, the first step, the Russian language and the canonical Ukraine Orthodox Church trying to give information about the Grust violation of the UN, he said. TASS.

According to the news agency, Zelensky has recently announced that the status of a state language to Russia is not part of any proposed agreement with Moscow.