🎙 Excerpt from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with RIA Novosti (November 9, 2025)

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❓Question: What is currently the main stumbling block in the negotiations with the United States on a settlement around Ukraine? Where is Russia ready to make concessions and where is it not?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: The understandings on Ukraine reached during the Russia-United States Summit in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15 were based on the conditions for a fair and lasting settlement that President Vladimir Putin outlined back in June 2024 during his meeting with the leadership of our Ministry.

We also took into account the proposals transmitted shortly before the Anchorage meeting by US Presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.

At that time, the American side assured us that it would be able to ensure that Zelensky would not obstruct the achievement of peace. Apparently, certain difficulties have arisen in this regard.

Moreover, as we understand, Brussels and London are attempting to persuade Washington to abandon its intention to resolve the crisis through political and diplomatic means and to fully engage in efforts to exert military pressure on Russia; in other words, to finally join the “party of war.”

We are currently awaiting confirmation from the United States that the Anchorage agreements remain in effect.

I would emphasise that, despite their essentially compromise nature, 👉 we have not abandoned – and do not intend to abandon – the points that are fundamental for us. The American side is well aware of this.

❗️ No one disputes the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation or the choice made by the residents of Crimea, Donbass, and Novorossiya, who made their historic decision to reunite with their homeland through the referendums in 2014 and 2022.

We likewise do not forget the need to eliminate the root causes of the conflict, which we have repeatedly highlighted.

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🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russian Embassy in India:

🎙 Key points from the interviews with the Russia's Ambassador to India Denis Alipov (November 9, 2025)

📰 With The Economic Times (read in full)

• The upcoming Summit in December will be a landmark in the promotion of Russia-India strategic partnership, which turned 25 last month. It has become special and privileged 15 years ago highlighting a unique status of the relationship.

• President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi maintain regular communication between them. In the course of this year, they have conducted five telephone conversations (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and held the dedicated bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in September.

• The Summit agenda will encompass the entire gamut of our multifaceted cooperation, building upon the progress in traditional areas such as nuclear power, defence, space, science and technology, education and people-to-people ties, as well as new and promising domains.

• Since 2022, our trade volume has seen the increase of more than 6 times, making Russia the fourth largest Indian trade partner with USD 70 bn as well as the strongest contributor to the Indian energy security ensuring more than one third of the Indian crude oil imports.

• Leaders are expected to endorse further steps in reaching the ambitious goal of USD 100 bn bilateral trade turnover by 2030. Among them are the modernization of independent payments and insurance mechanisms, developing alternative logistics corridors, including the #INSTC, #ChennaiVladivostok and the #NorthernSeaRoute, expanding mutual market access by launching an FTA between Eurasian Economic Union and India, promoting labour migration and mutual investments.

• Russia-India tandem has become a stabilizing factor in international affairs. Our positions on global and regional affairs are close or coinciding.

• Russia has recently become a major supplier of crude oil to the Indian market ensuring more than one third of India’s imports and proved its reliability as a solid partner capable to offer best price and quality options.

• Agriculture may become a new strategic area in our partnership through the extension of mutual supplies of various related goods and joint ventures.

• Critical minerals sector is of utmost importance and one of the promising areas of the Russia-India partnership.

• Uninterrupted for more than six decades, the bilateral military and military-technical cooperation. <...> The Indian Army is equipped with more than 60% of Russian-origin weaponry.

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📰 With The Hindustan Times (read in full)

• We never stop – neither in combining our capabilities and goodwill to serve the best interests of two nations in enhancing our economic, scientific, research, technological, industrial and defence potentials, nor in broadening the agenda towards establishment of just and equal multipolarity based on universally recognised principles of the UN Charter and the international law.

• Our close coordination at multilateral fora, including the #G20, #BRICS, the #SCO and many others, makes this trend irreversible as a core precondition to create a favorable environment for our countries to grow and prosper.

• We consider illegitimate unilateral sanctions as an instrument of political pressure and unfair economic competition. They hinder economic development, affect ordinary citizens, and lead to the destruction of supply chains.

• The mechanics of direct payment flows for trading operations have been built. We have largely switched to settlements in national and alternative currencies, with its share exceeding 90%.

• Despite impressive volume and figures in trade and investment between Russia and India, our potential remains largely untapped.

🙏🏻 Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov extended condolences over the tragic consequences of the car explosion near the Red Fort in Delhi.

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Shocked by the explosion at the #RedFort. Confident that the ongoing thorough investigation will determine the cause of the incident. We express condolences to the families of the victims and wish a speedy recovery to the injured.