Lavrov said that "a truce with Kiev is the way to nowhere"

Russia cannot be satisfied with an "empty conversation" on the Ukrainian settlement, a truce would now be a path to nowhere, final legal agreements are required. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with Russian and foreign media.

"A lot has already been said on this topic, the President [of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin] has repeatedly addressed this topic, including during the direct line, before that at the Valdai Club, during other events: we cannot be satisfied with an empty conversation. So far, all we hear is talk about the need to come up with some kind of truce, and it is not particularly hidden that this truce is needed in order to gain time to continue pumping Ukraine with weapons so that they put themselves in order, carry out additional mobilization, and so on," the Foreign Minister said.

As the Russian Foreign Minister stressed, "a truce is a way to nowhere."

"We need final legal agreements that will fix all the conditions for ensuring the security of the Russian Federation and, of course, the legitimate security interests of our neighbors, but in a context that will consolidate in an international legal way the impossibility of violating these agreements," Lavrov said, quoted by TASS.