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Highlights from Lavrov’s statements on new round of talks with Kiev, Russia’s demands

Par : amarynth

MOSCOW, May 28. /TASS/. Moscow will continue to insist on addressing the root causes of the Ukraine conflict at a new round of talks with Kiev, which will be announced in the near future, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the international meeting of high representatives in charge of security issues.

TASS has compiled the main statements by the Russian foreign minister.
New round of Russia-Ukraine talks

The next round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will be announced in the near term.

To effectively resolve the crisis, it is vital to eliminate its underlying causes, Lavrov said. “Negotiations are better than war. However, to achieve a lasting result — and we are firmly convinced of this — the core causes of the conflict must be addressed.”

The Ukraine conflict was “sparked by NATO’s long-standing aggressive eastward expansion, carried out despite repeated assurances from both the Americans and Europeans, initially to the Soviet leadership and later to Russia,” the Russian foreign minister stated.

He emphasized that Ukraine’s neutral, non-aligned, and nuclear-free status remains one of Russia’s “essential demands, which must be part of any settlement, as laid out during the April 2022 Istanbul talks.”

At the resumed negotiations in Istanbul on May 16, Moscow again demanded that “all those discriminatory laws be repealed,” Lavrov said. “We will maintain this position at the upcoming round of direct talks,” he added.
West’s position

Russia views “as totally unacceptable the West’s focus on the principle of territorial integrity” while disregarding the principle of peoples’ right to self-determination in the Ukraine conflict, Lavrov stated.

According to Lavrov, the West has failed to uphold human rights throughout the conflict. On the contrary, it openly promotes increased support for Ukraine, claiming that it “protects European values.” “This is what those values boil down to — the erasure of national identities, especially that of Russians and Russian-speaking population.”

Simultaneously, the acts of terrorism committed by the Kiev regime, “whose special services orchestrate assassinations of Russian politicians, military personnel, journalists, and public figures,” go unnoticed. “It is unfortunate that the West only reacts to our justified and proportionate responses to Kiev’s terrorist attacks on civilians, while our retaliatory measures exclusively target military sites and infrastructure used by the Ukrainian army,” Lavrov said.
NATO activity

Moscow is increasingly concerned about “a build-up of NATO forces along the contact line with Russia.”

Additionally, Lavrov noted Moscow’s concern over the spread of NATO infrastructure into the Asia-Pacific. “History proves that NATO’s presence always precedes instability,” he noted. The West is actively attempting to detach some ASEAN countries from the group and make them part of Western “narrow-bloc schemes,” the top Russian diplomat said.
Iran’s nuclear dossier

Lavrov also pointed out that the situation with Iran’s nuclear program remains tense. “By choosing to dismantle the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action eight years ago, certain political groups in Israel, the US, and Europe aimed to terminate Tehran’s legitimate civilian nuclear developments, ignoring its rights under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.”

Nevertheless, the Russian foreign minister expressed hope that progress could be made and that the Iran-US dialogue is moving in the right direction.

Russian MFA: Kiev’s latest drone attack targeting Russian civilians

Par : amarynth

Foreign Ministry statement (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2019580/) on Kiev’s latest drone attack targeting Russian civilians (May 23, 2025)

[Latest from the Russian MOD: In the course of repelling a massive enemy drone attack (from 20:00 of 20 May to 8:00 of 23 May), the Russian air defence systems shot down (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21397) 1,177 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, including 788 of them outside the special military operation zone.]

The Kiev regime is relentless in its terror attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure in numerous Russian regions, including Moscow.

According to the Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en), from May 20 to 8 am on May 23, the number of aerial attacks amounted to multiples of what it used to be with 788 strikes by fixed-wing UAVs and Western-made missiles targeting Russian territory outside the area of the special military operation. Our air defence forces destroyed 776 drones and missiles, though unfortunately, 12 UAVs made it through our defences and hit their targets.

Casualties have been reported. On May 22, an attack on the village of Panteleymonovka, the Donetsk People’s Republic, wounded eight people. On the same day, a drone strike in the Vasilyevsky Municipal District, Zaporozhye Region, killed a woman born in 1990 and injured four children aged 10, 9, 8, and 1.

On the night of May 23, a downed UAV triggered fire in an industrial zone of Yelets, Lipetsk Region, injuring eight people. Additionally, the Ukrainian forces launched two HIMARS missiles on civilian targets in the city of Lgov, Kursk Region, also resulting in casualties, including two children.

Notably, even after the Ukrainian forces had been ousted from the Kursk Region, they keep trying to infiltrate our territory and launch drone, long-range artillery, and missile attacks.

Under these circumstances, the President was compelled to make a decision on establishing a security buffer zone (https://t.me/MFARussia/25036) on adjacent territory in order to minimise the ability of the Ukrainian forces to infiltrate and to attack our border regions using various munitions.

The latest barbaric terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime were carried out in an attempt to thwart direct Russia-Ukraine talks facilitated by the US Administration, which are designed to settle the conflict definitively. They also appear intended to derail the implementation of initial agreements reached in Istanbul (https://t.me/MFARussia/24973) on May 16, including a massive prisoner exchange.

These attacks are part of the strategy pursued by Ukraine’s party of war, which also includes violations of energy and Easter ceasefires that Russia has strictly observed, as well as the unilateral ceasefire declared by us during the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory celebrations.

Without a doubt, Russia will deliver a matching response to barrages of terrorist attacks carried out by the Kiev regime.

Unlike the Ukrainian side, our targets will be strictly limited to military facilities and defence industry plants.

☝ To reiterate, our fundamental commitment to a constructive search for a peaceful settlement through dialogue remains unchanged.

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