EMBASSY INFORMS
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On February 21, 2022, the President of the Russian Federation signed executive orders recognising the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics as sovereign and independent states
This was the only possible solution, albeit quite a challenging one. The leaders and people from these two republics appealed to the Russian President to recognise them. The members of the Russian Federation Federal Assembly’s State Duma raised the same question in their appeal to the President of the Russian Federation.
As I reported to the President a week ago, we prepared our assessment of the proposals on the security guarantees that Russia submitted for consideration by the United States and NATO last December.
We received their response in late January. The assessment of this response shows that our Western colleagues are not prepared to take up our major proposals, primarily those on NATO’s eastward non-expansion. This demand was rejected with reference to the bloc’s so-called open-door policy and the freedom of each state to choose its own way of ensuring security. Neither the United States, nor the North Atlantic Alliance proposed an alternative to this key provision.
Question: Western media and politicians continue to whip up tensions over the alleged Russian “invasion” of Ukraine, although it seems fewer and fewer people trust their statements as time goes by. This has become a bad joke even in the UK and the United States. Why do they go on with this? What do they want to achieve?
Sergey Lavrov: I am sure that even people who are halfway interested in international politics have become convinced that this is only propaganda, fake news and lies. The main thing is for those who invent these fakes to believe in them. They like it. If they do, they can continue. Why not, indeed?
On February 17, 2022, US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan, summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, was handed the following reaction to the earlier received US response to the Russian draft treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on security guarantees.
Following Russian-German talks, Vladimir Putin and Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz made statements for the press and answered journalists’ questions.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s working meeting with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin
On February 12, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken upon the initiative of the US side.
The Russian minister stressed that the propaganda campaign concerning the “Russian aggression” against Ukraine, which had been launched by the United States and its allies, was pursuing provocative aims and encouraging the authorities in Kiev to sabotage the Minsk Agreements and to make pernicious attempts to resolve the “Donbass problem” by force.
On February 11, 2022, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu held talks UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace in Moscow
On February 10, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth Truss, who is in Moscow on a working visit
On 10 February 2022, Ambassador Andrei Kelin gave an interview to BBC Newsnignt, commenting on Russia-UK relations and tensions around Ukraine.
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