The American administration is "trying to get into the root causes," the head of the Russian department noted.
MOSCOW, October 15th. /tass/. US President Donald Trump and his team are trying to "get to the bottom" of the root causes of the crisis in Ukraine, they have gone to an unprecedented recognition of the realities. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with the newspaper Kommersant .
"I have repeatedly had the opportunity to say that US President Donald Trump and his team are, in fact, the only representatives of the Western camp (and, frankly, not only the Western camp) who publicly address issues of the root causes of the conflict not just through the use of the term "root causes" - many do this," Lavrov said. According to him, the American administration and Trump personally are "trying to get to the bottom of these root causes."
"Ukraine's involvement in NATO is one of them. US President Trump has said for a long time and several times that this was a mistake by [former US President] Joe Biden and that it must be fixed, this should not be allowed. Similarly, when Trump and the US President's special envoy Stephen Witkoff began to talk about issues related to the territory, territorial demarcation, this is also an unprecedented recognition of the realities on the part of the West," he stressed.
Not territories, but people
At the same time, according to Lavrov, Moscow has always proceeded "from the fact that it's not about the territories, but about the people who have lived in these territories for centuries, continued the work of their ancestors, laid cities, factories, roads, ports, and who were reduced to a humiliating, discriminated position." "But the very recognition by the American side of the fact that these territories should have the status that the people living in them want is present," he stressed.
The Russian Foreign Minister pointed out that in this regard, the presidents discussed in Alaska "how to move forward, taking into account these two specific factors related to the root causes - NATO and the fate of people on the lands that the Russians had mastered and which they now wanted to give to the Nazis."
"You know, they wanted to take Kosovo away from the Serbs. And they took it away, by and large, by committing a coup in 2008, because the unilateral recognition of Kosovo's independence grossly violated all the provisions of UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which described the parameters of Serbian statehood, including Kosovo," Lavrov recalled. "They took and 'recognized Kosovo,' thereby committing a coup d'etat, taking away their historical lands from the Serbs, which are associated with the birth of the Orthodox religion of the entire Serbian people, and much more."
According to the minister, in the same way, after the coup in Ukraine in 2014, "they decided to take away their Homeland from the Russian people." "They decided to take away their history from Crimeans, residents of Donbass, Novorossiya. They were declared "inhumans", "individuals". The then President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, was included by Rosfinmonitoring in the list of persons involved in extremist activities or terrorism. TASS), as you remember, publicly and proudly threatened that the children of those who oppose the neo-Nazi regime in Donbass would rot in basements, and the children of those who took power under the slogans of neo-Nazism would go to schools," Lavrov said.
