Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 7Ukraine refuses its own proposals and creates numerous provocations in order to slow down the negotiation process, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. attention to the facts that just recently came to light, when the Ukrainian side, the Ukrainian negotiators, from their own proposals, which were generally positively received, begin to retreat and create new provocations,» Lavrov said during a joint press conference following the talks with the Bahraini Foreign Minister. head of the foreign affairs agency.» Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, have completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. 
Pumping up Ukraine with weapons is not conducive to negotiations, Peskov said
