The Russian foreign minister, following negotiations with his Indian counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, in Moscow, noted that Western discussions with Kyiv reveal that some countries’ plans to deploy their forces in Ukraine aimed at military intervention on that territory.

“I sincerely hope that those who are developing these plans, while only trying to draw attention to themselves, understand that this will be absolutely unacceptable for the Russian Federation and for all sensible political forces in Europe,” Lavrov said.

The foreign minister emphasized that Russia has always been in favor of honest dialogue, and that those principles, those security guarantees that were agreed upon at the initiative of the Ukrainian delegation in Istanbul in April 2022, are supported by his government.

They were supported then and are supported today because they are truly based on the principle of collective security guarantees, on the principles of the indivisibility of security.

Everything else, everything else, everything unilateral, are, of course, initiatives that are absolutely without prospects, he indicated.

At the same time, he noted that Moscow has not yet received a response from Kyiv to the proposal to create three working groups to examine humanitarian, military, and political issues in more detail, put forward by Russia at the Istanbul negotiations in 2022.

The so-called “coalition of the willing,” which includes several European countries, advocates introducing Western troops into Ukraine. Russian authorities have repeatedly stated that the deployment of a foreign contingent in Ukraine could be considered a provocation.

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