Lavrov on Ukraine Peace Talks and Ceasefire at the UN

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner confirmed that Washington remains committed to facilitating a resolution to the conflict in Ukraine.

As Donald Trump said in August 2025 following his meeting in Anchorage, everyone agrees that the goal should not be just any ceasefire agreement, but a long-term peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine that will reliably put an end to the war. Russia, as President Putin has repeatedly affirmed, is ready to engage in negotiations

precisely until such a sustainable and just peace is reached.

The challenges that must be addressed to achieve this goal are clearly outlined in Vladimir Putin's policy address in June 2024. However, having learned from bitter experience, we will not suspend the special military operation during negotiations in any format.

Now, the Russian foreign minister spoke before the UN Security Council and made clear that the conflict began because many opportunities for peace were intentionally disregarded by Ukraine on behalf of European forces that were directing them. Europe had the opportunity to secure peace. There was the Minsk Agreement that would

have required simply a constitutional guarantee for regional autonomy for the Donbas region, a protection of the right to speak the Russian language, but it was disregarded. There was an agreement at the beginning of the conflict that Boris Johnson himself specifically shot down. And as far as the Russian foreign minister is

concerned, this war is a result of fraud, fraud that was committed by the European countries preventing peace and putting a situation into effect where Russia had to move in. This is what we heard from Sergei Lavrov speaking before the Security Council.

If the Europeans did not engage in fraud and force the opposition to fulfill the agreement signed in February 2014 under the guarantee of Berlin, Paris and Warsaw, it would have preserved the territorial integrity of Ukraine within the very borders of 1991, which Zelensky and his Western masters have been fighting for.

But the Europeans could not suppress their instinct to lie and try to achieve their goals with criminal methods.

Now, the Russian foreign minister also emphasized that talk of European values by the various countries that are arming the Ukrainian forces that are engaged in drone strikes and have been engaged in all kinds of atrocities and attacks first in the new republics and now, you know, attacks into Russia

itself, that talk of European values from these forces seems a little disingenuous. What are these European values exactly when the forces that are being backed and armed by the United States and the European Union are the very forces that hold up Nazi collaborators as heroes and glorify the forces aligned with Hitler in the Second World

War? This is the Russian foreign minister making that point before the Security Council.

Ursula von der Leyen and others in Brussels are trying to ensure that Ukraine is moving closer to the EU by giving it money and weapons because, I quote, Ukraine defends European values.

This means that racism, persecution of churches, heroism of Nazism through disgusting animalistic forms of Ukrainian nationalism are the very values that the EU in fact embraces.

Now, we heard remarks from Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader.

He addressed the Security Council and made a call for an immediate ceasefire. And Russia has pointed out that calls for an immediate ceasefire are completely theatrical and not serious. A real peace in this conflict needs to be a lasting peace, not a temporary pause for Ukrainian forces to regroup and proceed to attack Russia.

A terrorist tactic, that's how Russian officials have described it, a terrorist tactic that Ukraine has used before.

They want a just lasting peace, a peace that will endure and will recognize Russia's security guarantees and maintain stability, not a peace that simply allows the regroupment of Ukraine to continue their attacks, their terrorism against Russian civilians, et cetera.

Now, Zelensky also characterized Ukraine as being a peaceful country prior to the special military operation, ignoring the shelling and the killing of civilians in the Donbas region, ignoring the atrocities that were committed, such as the Odessa massacre at the Trade Union House and other

atrocities committed, making it sound as if Ukraine was just a peaceful, happy country until Russia's special military operation began.

So we heard a lot of disingenuous words from Zelensky, but the main thrust of his remarks was to push for this immediate ceasefire, which Russia has made clear is simply not realistic.

If this conflict ends, it needs to end for real in a way that it can be permanent, in a way that stability can be restored and that the region can be peaceful once again.

That is not the proposal that Ukraine was putting forward when they addressed the General Assembly, but Zelensky did make his remarks and he did get a lot of support from the Western countries that are currently funding his military operations.