Reference News Network November 26 report - According to the website of the UK's Financial Times, on November 25, Russia hinted that it might reject the revised U.S. peace plan for the Ukraine issue if it does not meet Moscow's long-term demands, despite Kyiv stating that it has reached a framework consensus with Washington.

On the 25th, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov stated that if the plan "removes... key consensus," "the situation will be entirely different." The "key consensus" referred to by Lavrov was the important agreement that Russian President Putin believed he reached during his August meeting with U.S. President Trump in Alaska.

The report said that at the time when Lavrov made these remarks, the White House was boasting that over the past week, "Ukraine and Russia were brought to the negotiating table, and there had been significant progress in reaching a peace agreement."

Lavrov expressed Moscow's concerns about the "19-point peace plan" agreed upon by Ukrainian and European officials in Geneva, after the U.S. had drafted a "28-point proposal" incorporating Russian opinions and submitted it to Ukrainian President Zelensky.

Lavrov said that Russia had "welcomed" the initial version of the peace plan. This version required Ukraine to give up territory it had not yet lost in combat and imposed other restrictions on Kyiv.

But the latest version of the plan is relatively unfavorable to Moscow, as it leaves the most sensitive issues to be decided by Trump and Zelensky.

Additionally, according to TASS, on November 25, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov told reporters that Russia had obtained the U.S. President Trump's plan on the Ukraine issue through non-official channels and was willing to discuss specific wording.

Lavrov said, "There are indeed a series of issues that need clarification." He added, "At present, we have not received the version that has been hyped by the media from our American colleagues."

Lavrov pointed out that if the U.S. removed the consensus reached between Russia and the U.S. in Alaska from Trump's plan, the situation would change.

Furthermore, according to the RT website, on November 25, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said that Europe had no right to participate in negotiations to resolve the Ukraine conflict, because Europe insisted on using Kyiv as an agent to try to defeat Russia.

Lavrov, in an interview, accused the "European elites" of long-standing hopes for Russia to "suffer misfortune," and pointed out that the ruling class in Western Europe is still dominated by "an aggressive mentality with an anti-Russian flavor." (Translated by Han Ziling, Zhao Feifei, Hu Wei)

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