Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in an interview with the national broadcaster of Belarus that was aired yesterday, said that Western powers are highly unlikely to allow Ukraine to return to the negotiating table. “I see no possibility of them being allowed to resume negotiations,” he said, reported TASS. “I don’t see any possibility for Ukraine to put forward any proposals … but we are not going to propose anything as well. We made our proposals long ago. Now, the ball is on their side.”
Asked whether a new variant of agreement with Kiev should be drafted, something that could be described as the Minsk-3 accord, Lavrov said that previous formats were of little use. “It would be senseless in the formats that we used for negotiations in the past eight years,” he said. European countries, Lavrov went on, are now strongly recommending Kiev to return to the negotiating table, but “Anglo-Saxons do not allow this to happen.”
