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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called US President Donald Trump's recent statements on Ukraine "encouraging." "It's still too early to draw any broad conclusions, but what we've heard so far from Trump administration officials is generally encouraging," Lavrov said in an interview with the New Russian Regions magazine.
According to the Russian Foreign Minister, the US president himself admitted "that NATO expansion and attempts to involve Ukraine were among the main causes of the conflict."
In addition, Lavrov added, Secretary of State Marco Rubio noted the “multipolarity of the modern world” and “the need to respect the interests of all states, large and small.” “At the UN,” Lavrov noted, “American diplomats, for the first time in three years, voted together with Russia and our kindred peoples against the General Assembly resolution promoted by Kiev and its masters from the European Union.”
Lavrov was referring to the resolution on the territorial integrity of Ukraine, which was adopted by the UN on February 24, but was opposed by Russia and the United States, which voted against it.
The Kremlin and the White House are now side by side. Negotiations to reach a ceasefire continue.
"I think we're going to make a lot of progress this week," Trump said today, before attacking President Zelensky.
"Ukraine must be serious about peace because it doesn't hold the cards," he said. According to the US administration, it is Russia that holds the cards.
And the Kremlin is ready to play it all. Lavrov himself made this clear by listing some of Moscow's conditions for sitting at the negotiating table.
"As Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said, we are always ready for negotiations. But at the same time, our national interests must be ensured," the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry said. "The root causes of the conflict in Ukraine must be eradicated: the head of state particularly emphasized this very important point in his telephone conversation on February 12 with US President Donald Trump."
Lavrov added that he was referring "first of all to the need to eliminate threats to Russia's security from Ukraine and the West in general, which have arisen as a result of NATO's expansion to the East."
Threats, incidentally, that have never existed since NATO is a defensive alliance. Moscow also calls for "a stop to the Kiev regime's habit of exterminating everything that is in one way or another connected with Russia and the Russian world: the Russian language, culture, canonical Orthodoxy, Russian-language media."
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