The bloc has embraced \u201crevanchism\u201d and is seeking to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, the foreign minister has said<\/p>\n
EU nations are trying to elbow their way into the Ukraine peace process despite their openly hostile stance toward Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, stressing that the bloc should be kept out of the talks for that reason.
\nSpeaking at an embassy roundtable about the Ukraine crisis on Wednesday, Lavrov said that EU countries are \u201cclearly trying, quite brazenly, to reclaim a place at the negotiating table.\u201d The minister, however, signaled that they have no business there.
\nThe bloc, he argued, maintains a \u201cposition of revanchism, of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia\u201d while debating a potential troop deployment to Ukraine in case of a ceasefire. \u201cThere is, of course, no place for it at the negotiating table,\u201d he stressed.
\nMoscow has consistently opposed the deployment of any Western troops in the neighboring country under any pretext, saying that one of the key reasons for the conflict was NATO\u2019s expansion towards Russia\u2019s doorstep. It has also warned that any unauthorized foreign troops in Ukraine would be considered \u201ca legitimate military target.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Lavrov also noted that both the EU and Kiev are seeking to convince US President Donald Trump to abandon his push to settle the conflict and relapse into a stand-off with Russia. [They want], essentially, to turn Biden\u2019s war into Trump\u2019s war,\u201d he said.
\nSince returning to office in January, Trump has been seeking to mediate an end to the Ukraine conflict, spearheading several rounds of talks with Russia. The effort culminated in a US-Russia summit in Alaska in mid-August \u2014 notably without EU or Ukrainian participation \u2014 which both sides described as highly productive.
\nAlthough no breakthrough was reached, Trump later said Ukraine could neither expect to join NATO nor reclaim Crimea, which voted to join Russia in a 2014 referendum held after a Western-backed coup in Kiev. He has also shifted focus from seeking a temporary ceasefire to pursuing a permanent peace settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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