There Will Be No Return to the 1991 Borders: Russian FM Lavrov
Russian FM Sergei Lavrov. X/ @tassagency_en
April 11, 2025 Hour: 7:53 am
Russia calls on the international community to accept ‘the reality on the ground’ in Ukraine.
On Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared that “under no circumstances” will Russia return to the 1991 borders, when Ukraine became independent from the Soviet Union.
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“Never and under no circumstances. And the Trump administration understands that as well — it has stated more than once that Zelensky will have to accept the territorial issue,” he said.
Lavrov, whose country expanded its territory through the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and four other regions, emphasized that “a return to the 1991 borders, as Zelensky continues to demand, is impossible.”
“If only because people live in those territories whom Zelensky considers to be ‘creatures’. He said it more than once before the start of the special military operation,” Lavrov remarked, while attending a meeting of foreign ministers from the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in the Kazakh city of Almaty.
In this regard, he noted that while the United States wants to address the root causes of the current conflict in Ukraine, Europe refuses to do so.
Russia is calling on the international community to accept the “reality on the ground” in Ukraine, which implies Russian control over nearly 20% of the neighboring country’s territory.
Currently, the Russian army is launching a new offensive in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions to create a security zone along the border.
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Source: EFE
