🎙 Excerpt (http://tiny.cc/r8jjxz) from an interview with FM Sergey Lavrov for the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov programme (March 14, 2024)

Key talking points:

💬Russia's President Vladimir Putin's Munich Speech (http://tiny.cc/s8jjxz) included his analysis of the developments in relations between Moscow and the West, and the policy that the Westerners had initially opted for with regard to the new Russia. Some people [on the West] took it seriously. They were a minority. The majority ignored it.

• Even when there were still false hopes that the Minsk agreements (http://tiny.cc/t8jjxz) would be implemented, when the Kiev regime was violating them by shelling Donbass, about 2 mln people left there for Russia.

• We are saying that if you are ready to conduct honest talks taking into account our real concerns, Russia’s lawful interests about which we talked to you for many years but you won’t listen. If you return to what we had called for, let’s talk.

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