Call The Deadline, Foreign Minister Lavrov: We Need A Binding Final Agreement

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. (Twitter/@mfa_russia)

JAKARTA - Unequivocal talks about resolving Ukraine's problems cannot satisfy Moscow, as the ceasefire will be a dead end at this time, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

"Many have been said about this issue. The President (Russia) has repeatedly talked about it, in particular during his question and answer session, Valdai's Discussion Club event, and on another occasion. We will not be satisfied with nonsense. What we have heard so far is talk about the need for a ceasefire, and no one really hiding the purpose of the ceasefire is to buy time to keep flooding Ukraine with weapons and allow them to unite, mobilize, and so on," he said. , reported TASS December 27

"The ceasefire is a dead end," Lavrov said.

"We need a legally binding final agreement that will document conditions to ensure Russia's security and, of course, the legitimate interests of our neighbors, but in a way that is based on international law, which will make the agreement impossible to violate," he added.

The top Russian diplomat stressed that the deal must first address the root causes of the Ukraine crisis.

"The first of the two main causes is a violation of all promises not to expand NATO to the east and the aggressive policies of NATO countries aimed at absorbing the entire geopolitical space to our borders. The same fate is prepared from Ukraine, and they continue to talk about it," he explained.

"The second cause, of course, is about the truly discriminatory actions taken by the Kyiv regime following the coup, which officially announced and legally established policies to destroy all Russian-smelling things, including language, media outlets, culture, and even the use of Russian language in everyday life, as well as a ban on the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church," Lavrov concluded.