Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. /
The Russian Foreign Minister also accuses kyiv of discriminating against the Russian language and calls Western powers “unreliable guarantors” of a possible solution
The official Russian discourse on the war and the reasons that led to the invasion do not change. The Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, repeated this Saturday the message that is carved into his brain to remember that any peace agreement with Ukraine inevitably involves kyiv’s renunciation of its aspirations to join NATO, the declaration of security guarantees and also the creation of a legislative framework regarding the consolidation of the Russian language and media in the occupied country.
“I hope that our operation”, as he referred to the invasion, “will end with the signing of documents on security problems, the neutral status of Ukraine and, of course, the consolidation of the current legislative framework regarding the Russian language, Russian education and the Russian media”, he made known in statements collected by the official TASS agency.
Lavrov also brought to light the complaints expressed this week, when he denounced kyiv for failing to comply with the principles of the Ukrainian Constitution. “They have adopted a huge number of unconstitutional laws that blatantly discriminate against the Russian language, spoken in many parts of the country,” he said in an interview with the RBC channel.
“The Hand” of the USA
The minister explained that, although the talks with Ukraine have improved in recent days, kyiv behaves as if “the United States were taking it by the hand” to guarantee its refusal of Moscow’s demands. The latter, moreover, he described as “absolutely minimal requirements” to stop the war.
In this regard, Lavrov also described Western powers as “unreliable guarantors” of a solution to the crisis by precisely guiding this “anti-Russian course” of kyiv and displaying their disdain for international law.
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