“Already after the start of a special military operation, just a few days later, the Ukrainian side proposed negotiations.
We immediately agreed... Then, at the end of March, they really put paper on the table in Istanbul.
It was taken as our basis.
On its basis, a draft treaty was handed over to the Ukrainian side on April 15.
But immediately after Istanbul (we know this for sure), the Americans and the British “clicked” on them, because it is the Anglo-Saxons who now rule in Kyiv, ”the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry quotes him as saying.
According to the minister, now the Europeans are begging Ukraine to return to the dialogue, but the Anglo-Saxons do not allow it.
“When they deign to turn to us with a proposal to resume the diplomatic process (which, as I understand it, the Europeans strongly ask them, but the Anglo-Saxons do not allow this), we will look at the situation on the ground.
There are liberated areas.
The majority of the population does not even have the thought of returning again to the control of neo-Nazi authorities or authorities that in every possible way indulge neo-Nazism, ”Lavrov emphasized.
Earlier, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the peace plan is possible after Kyiv fulfills all the requirements of Moscow.
On May 17, Lavrov noted that the Ukrainian negotiating group was being “led” by London and Washington — such information comes to Russia through several channels.