Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow won’t enter into negotiations with Ukraine to end the war, even after suffering a series of battlefield setbacks.
The Kremlin won’t discuss Ukraine’s demands that it withdraw from occupied lands and pay reparations, Lavrov said in an interview with the state-run news service RIA Novosti published Thursday. He earlier this week said Ukraine should cede sovereignty over territories annexed by Russia since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Feb. 24 invasion.
The United Nations has condemned Russia’s “attempted illegal annexation” of four partially-occupied regions of east and south Ukraine after Putin signed orders in September absorbing them into his country.
