Zakharova recalled that Lavrov corrected Western colleagues many times before the publication of the correspondence

“Publicly, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov corrected them many times, very intelligently, by the way, and politely - for some reason they did not notice this.

Either they don’t hear, or they don’t want to hear.

Well, now let them read, and not only they alone, but also the entire public, which will now be able to form its already unbiased opinion, "Zakharova said in an interview with Pavel Zarubin for the Moscow.

Kremlin.

Putin "on the TV channel" Russia 1 ".

On the evening of November 17, the Russian Foreign Ministry published the correspondence between Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the Foreign Ministers of France and Germany, Jean-Yves Le Drian and Heiko Maas.

This was done to prevent further speculation about the role of Russia in the internal Ukrainian settlement and its approaches to holding a possible ministerial meeting in the Normandy format.

As Lavrov himself noted, the published correspondence "expresses the essence of the issue quite eloquently."

The Kremlin noted that such a step is not traditional for diplomacy, but it is required by "an unconventionally crafty situation."