Core demands, security guarantees: Lavrov's statements on talks on Ukraine

MOSCOW, January 29. /TASS/. Moscow's core demands on Ukraine peace, as set out by President Vladimir Putin, remain unchanged, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

He told reporters that Russia does not have information about the security guarantees the United States and Ukraine could have agreed on.

TASS has compiled the key statements of the foreign minister.

Russia does not comment publicly on the course of the negotiations, believing that they should be shrouded in secrecy: "[Russian Presidential Spokesman] Dmitry Sergeyevich Peskov has already said that unlike the Ukrainians, we do not comment publicly on the negotiations, which should be kept confidential."

Russia will look at "real proposals" for Ukraine and will not focus on "those very public games."