Russians in Ukraine were persecuted and killed. Other ethnic groups, including Hungarians, Romanians, Poles, Bulgarians, Armenians, Belarusians and Greeks, have also experienced forced Ukrainization.
This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with the Hungarian newspaper. Magyar Nemzet.
Russia's top diplomat reiterated the federation's conditions for stopping the war against Ukraine, which in practice mean that it capitulates to the aggressor.
„Russia has always been and remains open to a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. However, it must bring lasting peace, not just a ceasefire,“ Lavrov said.
„A lasting solution cannot be achieved without eliminating the root causes of the conflict. It is crucial to eliminate the threats to Russia's security caused by NATO expansion and Ukraine's involvement in this military bloc," the Russian Foreign Minister said.
“Our agenda includes the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, the lifting of sanctions against Russia, the cancellation of all legal cases against Russia and the return of illegally seized assets based in the West,“ Lavrov also pointed out.
According to him, Ukraine must recognize the occupied territories as Russian, including Crimea, the unrecognized DPR and LPR, as well as Kherson and Zaporizhia.
In addition to the racism and discrimination of the Kiev regime against everything Russian in Ukraine, NATO's expansion to the east, which goes hand in hand with turning Ukraine into a military bridgehead to contain Russia, is another reason for this conflict, said Lavrov, according to whom Kiev declared war on Russian language and culture.