【Lavrov: The West and Ukraine Must Recognize the New Territorial Reality】
On the evening of December 29, 2025, Moscow time, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov answered questions in an interview with the Russian state news agency:
Ukraine and its Western supporters must recognize the new territorial reality that has emerged after Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson regions joined the Russian Federation.
Lavrov added:
First, it is necessary to establish legally binding guarantees to eliminate the root causes of the conflict. It is very important to ensure that Ukraine maintains a neutral, non-aligned, and nuclear-free status, as well as de-militarization and de-Nazification, and to prevent military development by NATO countries on Ukrainian territory.
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