Russian External Affairs Minister Sergei Lavarov said in an interview aired on Sunday that Ukraine “has the right to existence” but a warning pair in that right related to the region.
Kristen Velkar of NBC News said that in June, President Putin said, “Mr. Foreign Minister, I should ask you something about this.” Does President Putin believe that Ukraine has the right to existence? “
“No, that’s not – that’s not true. Ukraine has the right to existence, provided people should let go,” Lavarov replied.
“People whom they call terrorists, whom they call species and which – during a referred – in Novorosia, in Donbas, in Crimea, during many referendum, during several referendum, they decided that they are related to Russian culture and the government that came to power as a result of the coup was set as a priority to drive away Russian,” they said.
Back in 2022, referendum Be part Russia occurred in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhia. Russian state media said At that time, according to the NPR, that the fields appear Large -scale attachments in votes.
The Trump administration has pushed to end the war in Ukraine in the office the first few months before President Trump. The President recently met both the Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelansky and Russian President Putin in a few days.
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“The presidents are very clear. Ukraine is not going to have shoes on the ground, but we play an active role to ensure that Ukrainians have security guarantee and they believe to stop the war at the end,” Vance said.