“We have said repeatedly that we should not get carried away by enthusiasm regarding what is happening: that US President Donald Trump ‘put the Europeans and the leader of Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelensky, in their place and demanded that they comply, is not a sign of a complete solution,” the Foreign Minister of Russia stated.

In an interview with the Russian channel NTV, on the occasion of Diplomat’s Day, Lavrov affirmed that “all of that is very good if we want to achieve peace in Ukraine, but we have not yet reached that point.”

Regarding this, the Russian Foreign Minister added that negotiations are ongoing, as evidenced by the second round held in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, while warning that “there is still a long way to go.”

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