Lavrov pointed to Europe's desire to continue the Ukrainian conflict

The United States speaks directly about the desire to end the conflict on Ukraine, but Europe demands the "continuation of the banquet." This was announced on Sunday, March 2, by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda media holding.

The diplomat expressed the opinion that after the term of former US President Joe Biden, the administration of the American leader came to the White House Donald Trump, who is guided by common sense. Lavrov recalled that the head of state's team speaks directly about the desire to end all conflicts, while Europe demands "the continuation of the banquet."

He stressed that discussions in Europe about peacekeepers for Kiev are arrogance, a continuation of Kiev's incitement against Russia. According to Lavrov, the appearance of European peacekeepers in Ukraine will mean that the root causes of the crisis will not disappear for the Russian Federation.

"Just as they brought him [the current regime in Kiev] to power on bayonets and pushed him forward, they now also want to prop him up with their bayonets in the form of peacekeeping units. But this will mean that the root causes will not disappear," he said.In addition, Lavrov noted that Biden and his team's pride took over, while Trump is guided by common sense, which tells the United States to "step aside" from the issue of Ukraine.

The Russian Foreign Minister said that Biden acted out of pride and acted specifically against requests Moscow.

Lavrov also called it surprising that a completely normal conversation between the US and Russian delegations, which took place in Riyadh, was perceived as a sensation. The diplomat added that US Secretary of State Mark Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz are "absolutely sane people in every sense of the word." According to him, they did not try to command during the conversation, but sought to talk about what Trump's predecessor had done in four years.

Lavrov described the current American leader as a pragmatist guided by the slogan "common sense." It is interesting with Trump because his policy is "alive and human," the Russian Foreign Minister said.

"Over the past 500 years, when the West was more or less formed in the form in which it has come down to our days, naturally with some changes, all the tragedies of the world originated in Europe or happened due to European politics. <..."If we look at history in retrospect, the Americans did not play any inflammatory or even incendiary role," Lavrov said.The diplomat also pointed out that Europe cannot tell about the fate of the territories of Ukraine in Russian if the country is taken under control by European peacekeepers.

Lavrov recalled that the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky came to power on slogans about peace, including "leave off the Russian language, this is our common language, our common culture." However, in just six months he became, as the President of Russia said Vladimir Putin, "a traitor to the Jewish people."

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Earlier in the day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the policy of French President Emmanuel Macron, said that Paris was taking a position in favor of href="https://iz.ru/1847458/2025-03-02/peskov-zaiavil-o-pozitcii-frantcii-v-polzu-prodolzheniia-konflikta-na-ukraine"> continuation of the conflict in Ukraine by all means.

On the eve of March 1, the head of the Federation Council Commission on information policy, Alexei Pushkov, said that the plans of the European Union (EU) to support the Kiev regime they are doomed to failure without the help of the United States. In his opinion, Waltz "dispelled doubts" about whether they want Zelensky in the White House.