“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov stated that Ukraine “has the right to exist” if it refuses its territories in which the Russian Federation conducted pseudo-referendums on joining the aggressor country. Source: Lavrov in an interview with NBC, whose video is published by Russian media direct language: “Ukraine has the right to exist, provided that it will release those people whom it declared terrorists who, within a number of referendums in” Novorossiysk “, in the Donbass, in the Crimea.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Lavrov in an interview with the NBC TV channel whose video is published by Russian media
Direct language: “Ukraine has the right to exist, provided that it will release those people whom it declared terrorists who, within a number of referendums in Novorossiya, in the Donbass, decided in Crimea that they belong to Russian culture.”
Advertising:
Details: Commenting on its statement that Russia should also participate in security guarantees for Ukraine, Lavrov said: “I have never said that Russia should be vetoed on security guarantees. However, these guarantees should be taken by consensus.”
“If you think that Russia can be moved towards the discussion on security at our borders, it is not natural,” he said.
Prehistory:
- The occupiers were held from September 23 to September 27, 2022 on the joining of the captured territories of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions. The results “drew” the following: from 87 to 99% for annexation.
- And a couple of days, Putin signed a “Treaty on the entry into Russia” of the captured Ukrainian territories of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions and stated that now their residents – citizens of the Russian Federation.
- On June 21, 2025, Putin stated that Moscow insisted on recognizing the results of “referendums” in the fall of 2022 in the so -called “DPR”, “LNR”, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, after which the occupied territories of Ukraine were called “Russian”.