The Russian Foreign Minister, Seguéi Lavrov, affirmed this Saturday that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is not interested in negotiations. Also that he wants to provoke a conflict between Russia and NATO.
“If he (Zelensky) felt so bad that NATO did not defend him, it means that he hopes to settle the conflict by including NATO in this story, and not through negotiations,” Lavrov said at a press conference at the end of the meeting. talks with his Kyrgyz counterpart, Ruslan Kazakbayev.
The head of Russian diplomacy indicated that the Ukrainian president does not listen to statements from Washington, Paris, Berlin and other European capitals that NATO does not intend to interfere in the conflict.
“It turns out that what he (Zelensky) is trying to do is provoke a conflict with the participation of NATO, between NATO and Russia,” he insisted.
On Zelensky’s remarks
Larvrov indicated that Zelenski’s “constant and resentful statements” do not add optimism about the prospect of a new round of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations, after the two held on Monday and Thursday of this week in the territory of Belarus.
The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, also alluded this Saturday to the appeals to NATO by the Ukrainian president. Zelensky this Friday criticized the Atlantic Alliance for its decision not to impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine and its lack of action to protect the country’s population.
“In this case, we see that the countries of the OTAN They fully realize the impossibility of the direct participation of members of the Alliance in what is happening around Ukraine,” he said at a press conference.