Lavrov: I don't want to assume Anchorage summit was designed to buy time for Kyiv

Sergei Lavrov. Photo: Russian Foreign Ministry on Facebook

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said he does not even want to consider the possibility that the 2025 Putin-Trump summit in Alaska was intended to buy time to rearm Kyiv. He added that Moscow is willing to resume negotiations with Ukraine at any time.

Source: Kremlin-aligned Russian news agencies Interfax and RIA Novosti; Russian Telegram channel Vy slushali mayak (You have been listening to Radio Mayak), which posted a video of Lavrov's remarks at an embassy roundtable on Russia's war against Ukraine

Quote: "I do not even want to suspect that Alaska, like the actions of the Europeans, was designed to buy time to rearm the Kyiv regime. I don't even want to think about it. But in reality, things turned out the way they did."

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