At an event dedicated to Diplomats Day, on Feb. 10, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made known in unmistakable terms that Russia is ready for talks to end the Ukraine war, on condition that they address and remove the real cause of the conflict.
Lavrov stated in his remarks at a solemn event on the occasion of Diplomatic Worker’s Day, in Moscow: “The causes of Ukraine crisis run deep. We never tire of discussing them, and we are pushing for having them removed. Primarily, the issue is about creating threats to Russia’s security through NATO’s eastward expansion and the policy pursued by the Kiev regime, which came to power on the heels of an anti-constitutional coup, seeking to exterminate everything about Russia, including its language, culture, media, and canonical Orthodoxy. Complete and irreversible elimination of the root causes of the conflict is the only way forward if we want to put an end to it.
