Lavrov: US has no intention of ending the conflict 

Ukraine is a puppet of the Americans, and important issues need to be discussed with them. The problem, however, is that the United States has no intention of ending the conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in his interview with The International Affairs journal, Report informs.

According to him, their officially declared objective is to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia, to weaken it as much as possible militarily, economically, and politically: “Therefore, Washington continues to insist that a settlement can only be negotiated on Ukraine’s terms, meaning Zelenskyy peace formula. In our opinion, this position amounts to a pointless ultimatum.”

Lavrov also touched upon the relations between Russia and the West: “Unfortunately, the prospects for negotiations between Russia and the West are non-existent at this stage. We regard the Westerners’ hypocritical calls for talks as a tactical ploy to buy time once again, giving the exhausted Ukrainian troops a respite and the opportunity to regroup, and to send in more weapons and ammunition. But this is the path of war, not a peaceful settlement process. This much is clear to us.”