Russia Says It's Not Easy To Approve Ukraine's Peace Treaty Of War With The United States

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. (Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru/men's

JAKARTA - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said it was not easy to agree with the United States on important parts of the possible peace agreement to end the war in Ukraine, insisting Russia would never again allow itself to depend economically on the West.

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to end the three-year war "blood spill" in Ukraine, although the deal has not yet been agreed.

"It is not easy to agree to the main components of the settlement. The components are being discussed," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper, when asked if Moscow and Washington had agreed on several aspects of a possible peace agreement.

"We are well aware of what mutually beneficial agreements look like, which we have never rejected, and what kind of agreements can lead us into other traps," Foreign Minister Lavrov said in an interview published in Tuesday's edition.

Earlier, the Kremlin on Sunday said it was too early to expect the outcome of a more normal relationship with Washington.

Foreign Minister Lavrov said Russia's position had been clearly designated by President Vladimir Putin in June 2024, when demanding Ukraine formally stop its ambition to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and withdraw its troops from the entire territory of four Ukrainian territories claimed by Russia.

"We are talking about the rights of people living on this land. That's why this land is so valuable to us. And we can't hand it over, let people be evicted from there," explained the Russian Foreign Minister.

Foreign Minister Lavrov praised President Trump's "healthy stuff" and said previous US support for Ukraine's efforts to join the NATO military alliance was the main cause of the war in Ukraine.

However, Russia's political elite, he said, would not approve any move that would bring Russia back to its economic, military, technology, or agriculture dependence on the West.

World economic globalization, said Foreign Minister Lavrov, has been destroyed by sanctions imposed on Russia, China, and Iran by the administration of former US President Joe Biden.

World economic globalization, said Lavrov, has been destroyed by sanctions imposed on Russia, China, and Iran by the administration of former US President Joe Biden.

President Putin described the war in Ukraine as part of a slumping battle with the West, which he said embarrassed Russia after the Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989 by expanding the NATO military alliance and violating what he considered Moscow's sphere of influence.