Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Archival photoMOSCOW, March 28The meeting between the Presidents of the Russian Federation and Ukraine Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky is needed as soon as there is clarity on resolving all key issues about the fate of Donbass, the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov «When we are now negotiating with the Ukrainian side, we have an obligation to make sure that the people in Donbass never again suffer from the Kiev regime. We have an obligation to make sure that Ukraine stops settling with the West, with the North Atlantic Alliance militarily as threats to the Russian Federation, physical military threats, so that Ukraine ceases to be a country that is constantly militarized and attempts are made to place strike weapons there that threaten the Russian Federation, so that efforts to encourage Nazi ideology and practice stop in Ukraine … Both the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine are an indispensable component of those agreements that we are achieving,» Lavrov said. «The meeting (of the presidents — ed.) is needed as soon as we We want to be clear on the decoupling of all these key issues. We have drawn attention to these issues for many years. The West did not listen to us, now they have heard. Well, at least something,» he said in an interview with the Serbian media.
