Continued fighting in Ukraine will complicate discussion of conditions for peace dialogue – Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that the conditions for dialogue on peace will become more difficult the longer the fighting in Ukraine continues. He also noted that Russia had never walked away from negotiations.

If the fighting in Ukraine drags on, the conditions under which peace talks with the Kiev regime can start will only become more difficult, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

“At the time, the President said that those who are now against negotiations, meaning including those who prohibited Zelensky to sign the agreement already reached in April 2022, should realise that the longer they force Zelensky to wage war, the more difficult for them will be the conditions under which negotiations can begin,” Lavrov said.

We shall remind you that earlier the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitriy Medvedev, said that it was necessary to achieve all the set goals of the special military operation in Ukraine and destroy those who exterminated their people. In this way, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council commented on the decision of the UN international commission to investigate violations in Ukraine, which did not find sufficient evidence that the actions of Russian soldiers during the special military operation should be qualified as genocide, which Kiev regularly insists on.