Lavrov states that Russia is “ready for an agreement” with the US on Ukraine but there are still points for “polishing”

Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that The Kremlin is “ready to reach an agreement” With the United States authorities about Ukraine, While he has pointed out that there are still elements to refine.

«President’s statement (Donald Trump) mentions an agreement and we are willing to reach an agreement, but There are still some specific pointselements of this agreement that must refine, and we are occupied exactly with this process, ”he said during an interview with the American television network CBS News, in which he has not given more details alleging that the head of the White House has not done so,” so it is not appropriate that (he) does it. “

The head of Russian diplomacy has pointed out that “the president of the United States believes, and I think that rightly, that We are advancing in the right direction»On conversations for the end of the conflict in Ukraine.

Asked about the meeting between Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, planned by the end of this weekthe diplomat has reiterated that “There are several indications that we advance in the right direction.” «First, because President Trump is probably the only leader in the Earth who recognized the need to address the deep causes of this situation. When he said that it was a big mistake to put Ukraine in NATO, and that this was a mistake of the Biden administration, and he wants to rectify this, ”he explained.

Bombardment to kyiv

Lavrov’s words arrive after the Russian army has bombarded the Ukrainian capital, kyiv, leaving A dozen dead and almost one hundred injured, to which Trump has responded by pointing out that “it was not necessary” and arrives “in a very bad time”, in apparent allusion to the conversations for a high fire.

In this sense, the Russian representative has assured that “We only attack military objectives or civil locations used by the military”adding that “President Putin has expressed it many times, and this time it is not different.” Despite this, he has defended that “if it was an objective used by the Ukrainian military,” then the Russian troops “have the right to attack them.”