At a press conference with his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amirabdollahian, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s remarks on the inadmissibility of a ceasefire in Ukraine as a “shallow analysis”. Broadcasting It was held on the YouTube channel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
According to the minister, questions about how to stop the Ukrainian conflict should be directed not to Russia and China, but to the Kiev regime and Western figures, who daily and in various formats declare that it is impossible to stop what is happening now. We must continue to pump weapons into Ukraine.
Recalling that “this kind of final tirade was noted” by Blinken, Lavrov said that a ceasefire would be in Russia’s interest and should not be allowed.
“Frankly, it is difficult for me to say what such a superficial analysis is based on. The only assumption is that the West does not want to stop this war, it sees its geopolitical interests in this war primarily in terms of attempts to eliminate another rival on the world stage in the person of the Russian Federation.
He also noted that NATO countries are being drawn deeper into the conflict, although there is “nowhere to go any deeper” because they are already “fighting alongside the Kiev regime”.
Previously RT He reported that Blinken described the immediate ceasefire proposals in Ukraine as a possible cynical trap to freeze the conflict.