Russia Puts Forward Two Conditions To USA
- 28.04.2025, 7:00
They were voiced by Lavrov.
In March, US President Donald Trump proposed an ‘unconditional ceasefire’ in Ukraine. Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin allegedly agrees to it, but with conditions.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this in an interview with CBS News.
‘President Putin immediately supported President Trump's proposal, made a few weeks ago, to impose a 30-day ceasefire, provided that the mistakes of the last 10 years, when agreements were signed and then Ukraine violated them with the support and encouragement of the Biden administration and European countries, are not made,’ Lavrov claimed, referring to the Minsk agreements and the Istanbul talks.
It's important to consider here that Trump's idea was a ceasefire without any conditions. Ukraine agreed to this on 11 March, but Russia, after Trump and Putin talked, agreed only to a 30-day partial ceasefire (regarding energy infrastructure), which it eventually violated. The full ceasefire has been ignored by Moscow for nearly 50 days.
Continuing to respond for CBS News, Lavrov reiterated that Putin allegedly agreed to the ceasefire. At the same time, the foreign minister admitted that Russia has conditions, then he began to deny it. The demands included a halt to arms deliveries to Ukraine and ensuring that the Ukrainian armed forces do not use this time to reinforce.
‘That's why President Putin said: ‘A ceasefire - yes, but we want guarantees that it will not be used again to build up Ukrainian military strength, and that arms deliveries will stop...’. No, these are not preconditions. These are lessons learnt after at least three cases when such agreements, which we are talking about now, were broken,’ Lavrov said.
To the presenter's remark that Russia had not accepted the call for a ceasefire, the Russian foreign minister said that ‘the Ukrainian regime enjoys the active support of European capitals and the Biden administration.’
‘If you want a ceasefire just to continue supplying arms to Ukraine, what is your goal...? They have explicitly stated (NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and EU diplomatic chief Kaja Kallas - ed) that they will only support an agreement that will ultimately make Ukraine stronger and lead it to victory,’ Lavrov added.