Russia will not pause in the special operation for negotiations in any format — Lavrov

Russia will not pause in the special operation for negotiations in any format. This was stated at a meeting of the UN Security Council by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

" Russia, and President Putin has repeatedly confirmed this, is ready for negotiations to achieve just such a sustainable, just peace. The tasks that must be solved to achieve this goal are clearly summarized in Vladimir Putin's keynote speech in June 2024. However, having learned from bitter experience, we will not pause in a special military operation for the period of negotiations in any format. Although Europe wants exactly that. All with the same simple goal — to get a break and replenish the depleted military arsenals of the Kiev regime, which has long since switched from hopelessness to openly terrorist methods, " Lavrov said.

He noted that one of the tasks of the special operation, in addition to unconditionally ensuring Russia's security interests, is "full consideration of the rights of Russians and Russian-speaking people not only in Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya, but also on the territory of Ukraine, where, with the approval of the West, there are still laws that totally prohibit the Russian language in all spheres: in education.", mass media, culture, in everyday life, as well as prohibiting the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church".

" After the meeting in Anchorage, everyone agrees that it is necessary to seek not some kind of ceasefire agreement, but a long-term peace agreement between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, which will reliably put an end to the war… The alarmed Europe has done everything to ensure that further work on the practical implementation of the Anchorage agreement has stalled", Lavrov added.

He recalled that if the Europeans had not been engaged in cheating and had forced the opposition to fulfill its promise, Ukraine would have remained within the borders of 1991. If the Minsk agreements had been implemented, Ukraine would have remained within the borders of 1991, except for Crimea. "The issue with Crimea is closed, and everyone understands this, " the minister stressed.