{"id":4680,"date":"2026-03-16T17:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=4680"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:22:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:22:58","slug":"eu-completely-discredited-itself-in-ukraine-peace-process-lavrov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/eu-completely-discredited-itself-in-ukraine-peace-process-lavrov\/","title":{"rendered":"EU \u2018completely discredited itself\u2019 in Ukraine peace process \u2013 Lavrov"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bloc\u2019s officials have undermined all previous agreements, the Russian foreign minister has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

The EU has \u201ccompletely discredited itself\u201d<\/em> as a mediator in the Ukraine peace process, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.<\/p>\n

Kiev\u2019s European backers have demanded to be admitted to the trilateral Russia-US-Ukraine peace talks, yet they have consistently failed to uphold previous agreements, according to the diplomat.<\/p>\n

In 2014, France and Germany were the guarantors of an agreement between then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and the opposition, but did nothing when nationalist groups seized power, he said.<\/p>\n

The EU failed in its role a second time under the 2015 Minsk Agreements, which were intended to reconcile the new nationalist government in Kiev with anti-coup forces in east Ukraine, Lavrov added.<\/p>\n

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former French President Francois Hollande, who acted as guarantors to the deal, later admitted \u201cthey never intended to fulfill anything\u201d<\/em> and just wanted to buy time to arm Ukraine, he said.<\/p>\n

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Belgian PM urges EU to negotiate with Russia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After the conflict\u2019s escalation in 2022, \u201ca settlement could have been reached as early as April\u201d<\/em> of that year, if not for interference by then UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and \u201cEU officials,\u201d<\/em> the top diplomat explained.<\/p>\n

The Russian foreign minister accused European leaders of wanting to \u201cpreserve the presence of a Nazi regime in Kiev,\u201d<\/em> which he called a \u201croot cause\u201d<\/em> of the Ukraine conflict. If allowed, he said the \u201c[Kiev] regime will continue its hostile anti-Russian activities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Lavrov rejected plans by France and the UK to deploy troops in Ukraine as part of security guarantees for Kiev, calling it \u201can occupation force that will pose a threat to the Russian Federation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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West won\u2019t deploy troops to Ukraine without Russian approval \u2013 Telegraph<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Moscow views the Ukraine conflict as a NATO proxy war against Russia, and has long warned that it would never accept the presence of the US-led military bloc\u2019s soldiers on Ukrainian territory. Russian officials have long warned that any foreign troops in Ukraine would become legitimate military targets.<\/p>\n

European nations make demands they know are \u201cutterly unacceptable to Russia\u201d<\/em> to \u201csabotage\u201d<\/em>\u00a0US President Donald Trump\u2019s diplomatic efforts, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in December. \u201cThey have no peace agenda; they are on the side of war,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bloc\u2019s officials have undermined all previous agreements, the Russian foreign minister has said The EU has \u201ccompletely discredited itself\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4684,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions\/4684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}