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Russia and the United Kingdom are still at odds over Ukraine.
Talks between Russia’s senior diplomat and his British counterpart were deemed ineffective.
I can’t think of any other purpose for 100,000 soldiers to be stationed on Ukraine’s border but to threaten Ukraine. If Russia is serious about dialogue, it must redeploy its soldiers and stop making threats. I listened intently to Foreign Minister Lavrov’s remarks. I believe there should be more discussions. NATO has made ideas to strengthen openness and trust, and I urge us to go ahead with those discussions.
Talks between Russia’s senior diplomat and his British counterpart were deemed ineffective.CreditCredit…Russian Foreign Ministry, via Associated Press
MOSCOW, Russia — The Western diplomatic effort to resolve the Ukraine issue continued in Moscow on Thursday, with little hope of success, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov characterized criticism of his country’s actions as absurd and a meeting with his British colleague as futile.
“I’m honestly sad that we’re having a dialogue between a mute and a deaf person,” Mr. Lavrov said following a two-hour meeting with British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. “It’s as though we’re hearing but not listening to one other.”
Mr. Lavrov and Ms. Truss held a joint press conference following their meeting at a Russian Foreign Ministry house in downtown Moscow, displaying the opposing worldviews that have made the Ukraine issue look virtually impossible to settle.
While French President Emmanuel Macron attempted to strike a positive tone during a five-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Moscow on Monday, Ms. Truss’s hurriedly organized visit offered little hope.
Ms. Truss echoed Western warnings that an invasion of Ukraine would end in “a lengthy and drawn-out battle,” and said Russia needed to withdraw the 130,000 soldiers it had massed near Ukraine’s borders, according to US officials.
Mr. Lavrov responded by reaffirming the Russian government’s claim that it was not threatening anybody and hence had no motive to de-escalate the situation.
Mr. Lavrov rejected the prospect of a Russian invasion, saying, “You first have to show to me that we are the ones who created this dangerous situation.” “The West is attempting to turn this into a tragedy, but it’s rapidly like a comedy.”
Ms. Truss emphasized that the realities of Russia’s troop buildup, which began on Thursday with joint military drills in neighboring Belarus, Ukraine’s northern neighbor, spoke for themselves. Her blunt tone reflected Britain’s stance in the present crisis, which has included declassifying information alleging Russian coup plots and arming Ukraine with anti-tank weapons, among other things.
“There is no question that the stationing of over 100,000 soldiers is deliberately put in place to threaten Ukraine,” Ms. Truss, who was visiting Moscow for the first time in almost four years, said. “Russia must relocate those soldiers if it is serious about diplomacy.”
Ukrainian forces in Verkhnotoretske, Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, on Wednesday. Credit… The New York Times/Tyler Hicks
Russia’s planned naval maneuvers near Ukraine’s southern coast, the Ukrainian government claimed, were “an abuse of international law” by the Kremlin “in order to accomplish its own geopolitical interests,” and it called on other nations to ban Russian ships from their ports.
Mr. Putin said Russia was drafting formal replies to the US and NATO’s back-and-forth, and that he planned to talk with Mr. Macron by phone again in the coming days.
Mr. Putin has kept the world guessing about his intentions, indicating that he is open to further talks on his demands for a remaking of Europe’s security architecture but also hinting at the possibility of a full-scale confrontation with the West.
Mr. Lavrov, on the other hand, said that any Russian threats to Ukraine were made up, echoing Russia’s unwillingness to accept its military support for rebels in eastern Ukraine or its electoral meddling in the United States in 2016. Mr. Lavrov even said that Russia was worried enough about Western embassies reducing their staff in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, that Russia was considering doing the same.
Mr. Lavrov, who was standing next to Ms. Truss, added, “We’ve begun to worry that maybe the Anglo-Saxons are planning something.” “If they are evacuating their staff, we will very likely advise non-essential people at our diplomatic institutions to return home temporarily.”
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