The Ukrainian conflict cannot be resolved without Russia's security guarantees, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
The text of the head of Russian diplomacy's response to media questions was posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website.
"Now that the prospect of a political and diplomatic settlement is looming, the European Union, seeking a place at the negotiating table, has begun to talk about the need to provide firm security guarantees to Ukraine as a key element of a peaceful solution," he noted. "I'll leave aside the fact that no one in the European Union has said a word about guarantees for Russia's security, without which the conflict cannot be resolved, but the question arises: to whom does the European Union want to provide these guarantees? To a regime that will continue to exterminate everything Russian? And simultaneously oppress everything Hungarian, Bulgarian, and Romanian? Clearly, asking Brussels this question is pointless."
According to him, "they are prepared to do anything, including trampling on their own once-declared—and now proven false—values and ideals, for the sake of a utopian goal: Russia's strategic defeat." "All means are good for this," the Russian Foreign Minister added.
