Shoigu responded with a proverb to statements on security guarantees for Ukraine

On February 27, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu responded to Izvestia with a proverb to statements on security guarantees for conflict resolution for Ukraine from Europe, and also accused it of repeatedly disrupting agreements.

"There is an old Russian proverb: once you lie, who will believe you. And here more than once, at least twice in Ukraine," Shoigu said.Shoigu added that in 2014, the French and German foreign ministries facilitated the signing of an agreement between former Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych and the armed opposition, according to which the president was supposed to resign, but these guarantees "lasted as long as three hours." Shoigu also noted that these could hardly be called guarantees.

Then, as the Secretary of the Security Council added, there were the Minsk agreements, but after a while the former leaders of Ukraine, Germany and France recognized that the agreements were signed solely to "give Ukraine time to rearm."

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Earlier in the day, the head of the European Council, Antonio Costa, in an invitation to the leaders of the European Union (EU) for a special summit on March 6, stated that href="https://iz.ru/1845909/2025-02-27/v-evrope-vyrazili-gotovnost-uchastvovat-v-garantiiakh-mira-na-ukraine " target="_blank">Europe is ready to participate in the guarantees of peace in Ukraine. He noted that the European contribution to security guarantees is necessary to ensure lasting peace in the country.