EU stance on excluding Russia's interests from Ukraine settlement leads nowhere — Lavrov

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A Russian minister commented on remarks by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen regarding the need for a truce to facilitate negotiations

MOSCOW, November 15. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's call for a ceasefire before discussions on Ukraine leads nowhere.

"Ursula von der Leyen's call for a ceasefire before any discussion of European security is an absolutely dead-end approach. The same applies to [EU foreign policy chief] Kaja Kallas' statement that they will not support a settlement that takes Russia's interests into account. I hope everyone understands this," he said in an interview with Vesti.

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