Reference News, August 21 report. According to Reuters, August 20 report, Russia said on the 20th that trying to resolve security issues related to Ukraine without Russian involvement is a path that "does not work." In the context of the West's eagerness to establish security guarantees for Kyiv, Russia issued this warning.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov specifically criticized the actions of European leaders. On the 18th, European leaders met with U.S. President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy at the White House to discuss possible security assurances for Ukraine that could help end the conflict that has lasted for three and a half years.
According to reports, Lavrov stated during a joint press conference after meeting with the Jordanian foreign minister: "Now there are proposals to resolve security and collective security issues without Russian participation, and we cannot agree with such practices. This does not work."
American officials and sources told Reuters on the 19th that military planners from the United States and Europe have begun discussing post-war security guarantees for Ukraine. Lavrov said that such discussions without Russian participation are meaningless.
Lavrov said: "I am sure that Western countries, especially the United States, are very clear that it is a utopian idea to seriously discuss security issues without Russian participation, and this path 'does not work'."
Lavrov accused the European leaders who met with Trump and Zelenskyy of "adopting rather radical methods of escalating the situation, making rather clumsy and overall unethical attempts to change the position of the Trump administration or even the personal stance of the U.S. president... We have never heard any constructive ideas from Europeans." (Translated by Wu Mei)
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