🎙 Interview with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation M.Yu. Galuzin RTVI, March 29, 2023
💬 We believe that a comprehensive, just and sustainable peace in Ukraine and Europe is possible with the cessation of hostilities by Ukrainian armed groups and the supply of weapons by Western countries, as well as the withdrawal of foreign mercenaries.
We need a neutral and non-bloc status of Ukraine, its refusal to join NATO and the EU, confirmation of the non-nuclear status of Ukraine, as well as recognition by Kiev and the international community of new territorial realities.
☝️ In addition, a prerequisite is the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, the protection of the rights of Russian-speaking citizens, the Russian language and national minorities, free cross-border movement with Russia, the abolition of anti-Russian sanctions by Ukraine and the West and the withdrawal of claims, the cessation of prosecutions against Russia, its individuals and legal entities .
It is important to restore the contractual and legal base of Ukraine with Russia and the CIS, as well as, at the expense of the West, the civilian infrastructure destroyed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine after 2014.
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❗️ We will not tolerate the existence of an openly anti-Russian state on our borders, whatever its borders may be.
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