Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's answer to a question from the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin television programme, Moscow, November 30, 2025
30 November 2025 14:02
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Question: Europe has been acting so outrageously, demanding some sort of role in the talks. Can they even demand anything?
Sergey Lavrov: It wasn't really discussed.
We proceed from the premise (as also stated by representatives of the Presidential Executive Office, including Yury Ushakov) - which I believe is obvious to everybody - that Europe has already removed itself from the talks.
Europe spoiled the initial deal of February 2014, when it acted as guarantor for the formal agreement between Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition. It did nothing when the opposition seized all government agencies the morning after the agreement was signed.
Similarly, Europe undermined the Minsk agreements when the signatories, the then Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and the then President of France Francois Hollande, subsequently admitted that nobody had intended to fulfil the agreements.
The most recent case occurred in April 2022 when, at the demand of the then Prime Minister of the UK Boris Johnson and with Europe's full acquiescence, if not connivance, the Istanbul agreements were derailed.
Europe has used up its chances.
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