Moscow’s goodwill toward Western-backed negotiations has been exhausted, the foreign minister says
Moscow no longer believes the West is genuinely interested in negotiating an end to the Ukraine conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
Speaking at a news conference with Mozambican Foreign Minister Maria Manuela Lucas in Maputo, Lavrov accused the West of “imitating a willingness to negotiate while openly issuing ultimatums to Russia.”
He argued that although the West has been “hypocritically” calling for talks, it has spent more than a decade undermining every attempt to reach a peaceful resolution between Russia and Ukraine.
“In 2022, Russia and Ukraine had already reached a negotiated settlement. It was undermined by the very same West, openly and publicly,” Lavrov said.
“We will no longer believe the West when it claims to want negotiated solutions. Our reserve of goodwill and hope has been exhausted once and for all,” he added.
Russia has insisted that the current conflict has its roots in the 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev and the subsequent attempts by the new Ukrainian authorities to suppress the rebellion in Donbass by force. Ukraine later failed to implement the 2014-2015 Minsk agreements, which were intended to reintegrate the breakaway regions into Ukraine by granting them broad autonomy through comprehensive political reform.
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