9 hours agoAfter talks with the US, Lavrov: Russia won't accept NATO troops in Ukraine
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said his country would not accept peacekeeping forces from NATO countries in Ukraine under any peace accords, following high-level talks with the US in Saudi Arabia. Any presentation of the armed forces under any other flag changes nothing. Of course [...]
Any presentation of the armed forces under any other flag changes nothing. Of course it's totally unacceptable”He said by BBC.
Russia and the US said they had agreed to appoint teams to start negotiations on ending the war.
“Today is the first step of a long and difficult but important”He said after the meeting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Ukraine was not invited to the talks, which its President Volodymyr Zelensky said was a “surresursion”.
The meeting in Riyadh was the first time since Ukraine's full invasion by Russia, which is known that Russian and American delegations have met face to face.
Also at the meeting in Saudi Arabia were US Middle East envoy Steve Whitoff and US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, as well as Russian President Yuri Usakov's deputy and the head of Russia's sovereign property fund, Kiril Dmitriev.
