Russia says a weak ceasefire will not help end the conflict in Ukraine, with a legally binding deal the only solution for a lasting peace.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov argues only conditional legal documents will avoid the West from re-arming Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov argues only conditional legal documents will avoid the West from re-arming Ukraine.
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00:00We can't have an empty conversation.
00:10All we hear so far is talks about the need to come up with some kind of truce,
00:16and it is not particularly hidden that this truce is needed in order to gain time to continue pumping weapons into Ukraine,
00:23so that they can put themselves in order, carry out additional mobilization, and so on.
00:29A truce is a road to nowhere.
00:33We need final legal agreements that will fix all the conditions for the security of the Russian Federation
00:44and, of course, the legal interests of the security of our neighbors.
00:49But in the context that will be an international legal way to consolidate the impossibility of violating these agreements,