Russia can’t give up the goals of its special military operation in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
The minister said Russian President Vladimir Putin "in the past few days has spoken at length to give an assessment of the current situation, especially stressing that, as we overcame the attempted mutiny, we haven’t made the slightest concessions with respect to the goals of the special military operation and haven’t lost any positions on the battlefield...."
"It’s impossible to give them up - the goals that have been set," Lavrov said on Channel One.
The minister said that Russia cannot change its approaches to the conduct of the special operation as long as the West is purposefully creating threats to Russia’s security, funneling lethal weapons into Ukraine, and as long as "the destruction of all things Russian in Ukraine continues to be their stated goal."
Russia can no longer rely on agreements with West, Sergey Lavrov says
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the relations between Russia and the West a "fight of worlds," because Moscow can no longer rely on previously achieved agreements, including legally binding ones.
"Russian President Vladimir Putin has said it repeatedly that we are open for cooperation. But, in regards to our former Western partners, we can no longer rely on agreements with them, including legally binding ones. It is a ‘fight of worlds,’ of sorts," the minister said on Russian TV Wednesday.
The Minister noted that, after the speech of the Russian representative to the International Monetary Fund Alexey Mozhin, many countries started asking a question of "what if the Americans dislike our behavior tomorrow?"
According to Lavrov, these thoughts will make any self-respecting nation that wants to live by its traditions to follow Russia’s example and to fight for sovereignty in key areas that functioning of states depend on.
Lavrov says he had no hope-inspiring communication with West recently
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday said he had held no conversations with Western officials lately that he saw as inspiring hope.
"No, I have had no such communication," he said to a question on the subject on Channel One television.
As an example, Lavrov recalled how then-Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades requested a meeting with him last year during a UN General Assembly session, but then backed out of it.
"We confirmed the meeting, but then they apologized to us and said that the EU advised against him meeting with me," he said.
Lavrov said there were two other similar requests from ministers that he declined to name, who ultimately didn’t go forward with the meetings.
"So, it seems to me, there is some kind of a ban there," he said.
Lavrov said Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto is the exception as they have met and spoken by phone multiple times.
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