Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced on Wednesday that Moscow had agreed to Washington's proposal for a trilateral meeting between Russia, the United States and Ukraine, including a set duration for the meeting, to discuss a settlement to the conflict. Speaking at a press conference in Moscow, Lavrov said Russian President Vladimir Putin had fully approved the proposal and that his country was ready to move on to serious work.
Lavrov accuses Kyiv of obstructing previous agreements
He accused Ukraine of attempting to obstruct agreements reached previously and of launching strikes on civilian facilities and Russian polling stations. Moscow had proposed holding trilateral negotiations involving the United States and Ukraine, he added, but they had, in his words, been infiltrated and obstructed.
He said the initiatives under discussion had come from the United States, not Russia, stressing that Moscow sought to implement the understandings reached by Putin and US President Donald Trump during their summit in Anchorage, Alaska, in August 2025. Lavrov reviewed the course of negotiations that had failed since 2014, culminating in a comprehensive settlement plan put forward in 2022 and initialled.
He accused European countries of preventing Kyiv from signing the agreement and said former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had helped obstruct the settlement. The Russian minister said his country had faced heavy pressure from European countries that, he claimed, had openly declared the Anchorage proposals buried.
He also accused European leaders of being unwilling to reach a comprehensive settlement, reiterating Moscow's readiness for serious negotiations and saying that Ukrainian stalling and European pressure were preventing real progress.
