Moscow rebuffed Ukraine’s proposal for a peace summit by demanding that Kyiv meet its requirements of “demilitarization” and denazification” or “the Russian army will …
People pay their last respects during a funeral Tuesday for Volodymyr Yezhov, a Ukrainian killed in the fighting against Russian forces.Lavrov couched the war in Ukraine in the same terms used by Russian President Vladimir Putin when he described the invasion he launched Feb. 24 as a “special operation” to “denazify” his western neighbor.
“There is a little left to do — to accept these proposals in an amicable way. Otherwise, the Russian army will deal with this issue,” Lavrov said. The foreign minister added that the “ball is on the court’s side” of Kyiv and Washington, noting “they can put an end any time to this senseless resistance.”
Ukrainian soldiers hold a ceremony last Thursday to remember their comrades killed in the fighting with Russian forces.Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in an interview Monday that his country’s aim is to hold a peace summit by the end of February at the United Nations, but only on the condition that Russian leaders face prosecution for war crimes. “Every war ends in a diplomatic way,” Kuleba told the Associated Press.
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