Lavrov announces breakdown of cooperation with the US

Lavrov makes statements about the US, Ukraine and the Anchorage talks

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov said that after talks in Anchorage Moscow and Washington were supposed to move to broader cooperation, but this did not happen.

Lavrov's main statements

According to the Russian Foreign Minister, Russia allegedly accepted the US proposals to resolve the situation around Ukraine, but later, as Lavrov claims, it, Washington itself was not ready to implement them.

He also repeated propaganda theses about the so-called «Nazi foundations of Ukraine», stating that their elimination is a condition for Russia's security, He said that the country's values are not subject to compromise.

In addition, Lavrov stressed that the US position on Ukraine was important to Moscow, regardless of the reaction of Kyiv or countries European Union.

Context.

Negotiations between representatives of the United States and Russia in Anchorage were seen as one of the possible diplomatic channels for discussing the war against Ukraine.
At the same time, the positions of the parties remain radically opposed, and Russian statements regularly contain rhetoric that Ukraine and its partners call disinformation.