Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated Monday that peace talks with Ukraine would preserve, whilst warning there was a “actual” threat of World War III.
Speaking to Russian information companies, he criticized Kyiv’s method of the talks, adding: “Good will has its limits. But if it isn’t reciprocal, that doesn’t help the negotiation technique.
“But we are continuing to engage in negotiations with the team delegated by (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelensky, and these contacts will go on.”
But Lavrov accused former actor Zelensky of “pretending” to negotiate.
“He’s a good actor,” he said.
But he added: “If you watch attentively and read attentively what he says, you’ll find a thousand contradictions.”
Given the current tensions, Lavrov said the danger of World War III was “real”.
“The danger is serious, it is real, you can’t underestimate it,” Lavrov told the Interfax news agency.
Of the continuing warfare in Ukraine, he stated he turned confident that “the whole lot will of course finish with the signing of an accord.
“But the parameters of this accord will be defined by the state of the fighting that will have taken place at the moment the accord becomes reality,” he added.
