Lavrov on Ukraine: A truce is a path to nowhere

CGTN Europe

Russia says a weak ceasefire will not help end the conflict in Ukraine, with a legally binding deal the only solution for a lasting peace. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov argues only conditional legal documents will avoid the West from re-arming Ukraine.

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00:00We can't have an empty conversation.

00:10All we hear so far is talks about the need to come up with some kind of truce,

00:16and it is not particularly hidden that this truce is needed in order to gain time to continue pumping weapons into Ukraine,

00:23so that they can put themselves in order, carry out additional mobilization, and so on.

00:29A truce is a road to nowhere.

00:33We need final legal agreements that will fix all the conditions for the security of the Russian Federation

00:44and, of course, the legal interests of the security of our neighbors.

00:49But in the context that will be an international legal way to consolidate the impossibility of violating these agreements,

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