As the spokeswoman of the Tammy Bruce, the conversation wrote in the announcement, took place at the request of Lavrov.
“After the visit of the special envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow on April 25, the secretary outlined in an interview with his Russian equivalent of the next steps in Russia-Ukraine's peace negotiations and the need to immediately end the war. The United States seriously approaches the end of this senseless war,” reads Washington.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in its announcement from the conversation announced that Rubio and Lavrov were discussed in a “productive key aspects of Russian-American dialogue,” and speaking of Ukraine, “” Minister and Secretary of State emphasized the importance of the requirements necessary to start negotiations. “
In an interview published on Monday for the Brazilian newspaper “O Globo” Lavrov, mentioning Russia's conditions to start talks, he talked about the international recognition of the annexation of Crimea and all four other illegally occupied circuits of Ukraine, “demilitarization” and “denasification” of this country, as well as the abolition of the sanctions and freezing of Russian assets. In an interview broadcast on Sunday for American television, CBS Lavrov also rejected US proposals regarding the return of the Zaporosze Atomic Power Plant and the return from Russia illegally deported Ukrainian children.
Rubio-ławrow's conversation occurred a day after US President Donald Trump suggested that Vladimir Putin “brings” and did not want the end of the war. The American leader also threatened Russia by introducing additional sanctions.
