Posted on 02/26/2025 4:54:12 AM PST by marshmallow
DOHA (Sputnik) - For Russia, any course of action involving the deployment of European peacekeepers to Ukraine is out of the question, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday.
"No, we cannot consider any such options," Lavrov told reporters after talks in Doha.
The approach being imposed by the Europeans, namely France and the UK, is aimed at further fueling the conflict and "pumping Kiev with weapons again", Russia's diplomacy chief added.
US President Donald Trump stated that he believes the presence of peacekeeping forces in Ukraine is necessary in one form or another, but the format of this mission must be acceptable to all parties.
Russia is not blocking negotiations on Ukraine, Lavrov said, emphasizing that the best way to resolve the conflict is to understand its root causes.
"We are waiting for our European colleagues to stop spreading lies that Russia is blocking the negotiations. Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly responded to these false claims, pointing out that the Ukrainian leadership, instigated by Europe, refuses to negotiate," Lavrov told reporters after his visit to Qatar.
Lavrov noted that European politicians assert the conflict in Ukraine should be resolved through military means rather than through negotiations.
"We believe that the best help from those who sincerely want to help resolve the conflict is to understand its root causes, as [US] President Trump did recently," Lavrov added.
An upcoming Russian-US meeting that will focus on normalizing the operation of embassies will be held on February 27 in Istanbul, Lavrov said.
"We announced that our high-level diplomats and experts, will meet and consider the systemic problems that have accumulated as a result of the previous administration's illicit activities to create artificial obstacles to the functions of the Russian embassy, to which we naturally reciprocated and also created uncomfortable conditions......
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The Europeans screwed the pooch with Minsk, having admitted it was a ruse to buy time to arm Ukraine, Zelensky even hiding his amusement during a Minsk meeting.
Never trust the Ukrainians again.
McCain, Obama anx Nuland really f-ed things up in Ukraine. So much blood on their hands.
Lavrov has earned and deserves hard and repeated BITCH SLAPPING.
For being right?
Tell ya what, I’ll buy you a nice, shiny new gun and you can head to Ukraine...being so fierce in your opinion :)
The Ukrainians never had "agency." They were a divided and disappearing country, which came out of the Soviet Union with the baggage of communism, a destroyed society, vast corruption, and no national identity. Its biggest export was people.
It was first controlled by Russian oligarchs, and then after the manufactured 2014 coup, it was taken over by American and EU oligarchs, and turned into a weapon of proxy war on the ultimate target, Russia.
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