Western countries want to gain time to equip Ukrainian troops with more weapons through a ceasefire in Ukraine. He stated this in an interview TASS Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
As the minister stated, Russia does not see any preconditions for the start of negotiations to resolve the conflict in Ukraine this autumn.
In his opinion, when the West “starts to spread such provocative rumors” it is apparently testing whether Moscow is ready to accept its own conditions, namely a ceasefire.
“And in fact they do not particularly hide the conditions: a break for several months, no agreement other than a temporary ceasefire, and during the gained period pump new weapons in addition to those already supplied to Ukraine and are being systematically destroyed by our Armed forces,” Lavrov said.
He added that the Russian side has not seen any serious negotiation offers from the West.
Previously Lavrov statedHe said that Russia would not consider ceasefire proposals in Ukraine. According to him, the Russian Federation had done this once before, but was deceived.
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