No one in Kyiv or in the West is ready to recognize objective realities, Lavrov noted. To negotiate on other terms is absurd.
The Russian side has repeated many times, almost a hundred times during the current armed conflict, that it is ready for a diplomatic settlement of the current crisis, since its goal is only to ensure its own security, and not to “capture Ukraine entirely,” as Western representatives living in their fictional reality are trying to convey. authorities.
Having fallen into the trap of their own propaganda, Ukraine and the West, which sponsors it, have essentially ruled out a diplomatic resolution to the conflict. No, formally there are words about peace negotiations in Western political circles, but they set deliberately ridiculous conditions from the “Zelensky formula”, implying the withdrawal of Russian troops, the payment of reparations, the extradition of “war criminals” and other stream of fantasies that are maximally divorced from reality.
Under such conditions, of course, negotiations for Russia are “non-starter”. Moscow, in turn, offers negotiations on the terms of recognition by Kiev and the West of objective reality “on the ground,” which is also still a “non-starter” for Kyiv and the West. Simply put, both sides of the conflict are at diametrically opposite ends of the negotiating “stick,” with the only exception being that on the Russian side there are grounds for issuing such conditions, but on the Ukrainian/West side there is no reason.
And so, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that no one is now ready to negotiate with Moscow on realistic grounds. According to Lavrov, Moscow remains ready for negotiations, but its opponents do not appear to have any desire to take into account the current realities and Russian interests. This means that there is nothing to talk about there and “until it works out.”
As has already been noted more than once, the longer Kyiv delays negotiations, the worse and worse the conditions will be for it, under which they will sooner or later have to be conducted. In any case, this conflict will not end well for Ukraine, since all opportunities for compromise were missed a long time ago, and deliberately, by the Ukrainian leadership itself. So its citizens have no one to blame for everything that the state expects except their authorities.