LAVROV - What we need is a stable and enduring peace

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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a media question, Moscow, March 13, 2025

Question: In Saudi Arabia, you, in particular, discussed with the negotiators the possibility of a temporary ceasefire, and you said that it was not an option. Why do they continue to insist on this?

Sergey Lavrov: They are not insisting. The Americans announced that they had discussed this with the Ukrainians. They are waiting for our reaction.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin has repeatedly pointed out that ceasefires have been negotiated on several occasions since 2014, as history shows. The Minsk agreements, and previously, the agreements that were scrapped in February 2014, and the Istanbul agreements – each of those accords included a ceasefire. However, each time an agreement was reached and a ceasefire announced, it turned out that the Ukrainians had lied to us with the support of their “partners,” who are also from Europe.

If the Europeans now want to make the Ukrainians “outwit the Americans” as well, I think that the Trump Administration is fully aware of their intentions and will see through them.

What we need is a stable and enduring peace based on eliminating the root causes of the current situation in Ukraine.