Urgent.. Russia expresses its readiness to provide security guarantees to Ukraine

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced Moscow’s readiness to negotiate security guarantees for Ukraine, but stressed that dialogue is only possible taking into account new geopolitical realities.
This came in the words of the Russian Foreign Minister, commenting On the prospects for resolving the conflict that has been ongoing since 2014 and escalated in 2022.
Lavrov indicated that Russia is ready to consider security guarantees. For “the state now called Ukraine, or that part of it that has not yet defined itself”.
The Minister also stressed that the status of regions such as Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya is not subject to discussion, because these regions, according to Saying that, it has already determined its future.
In Kiev and Western countries, such statements were seen as another attempt by Moscow to legitimize its actions in eastern Ukraine and the peninsula. Crimea.
The Ukrainian leadership has repeatedly announced that it considers these lands to belong to it and insists on returning them to Kiev’s control.
Meanwhile, analysts point out that Such statements may be an attempt by Russia to show its readiness for dialogue, but on its own terms.
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