Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that he saw no reason for European leaders to participate in negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine and accused Brussels of wanting to lengthen the conflict, The Moscow Times reported.Lavrovs remarks came ahead of his check out to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to consult with leading U.S.
officials, consisting of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.Meanwhile, European leaders were assembling in Paris for an emergency top on Ukraine amid alarm at Washingtons diplomatic outreach to Moscow.Speaking at a press conference with his Serbian equivalent in Moscow, Lavrov said: If they are going to weasel out some shrewd concepts about freezing the conflict, while really intending as is their customized, nature and practice to continue the war, then why should we invite them at all?The veteran foreign minister argued that Brussels had stopped working to assist bring a resolution to the conflict since 2014, when Moscow first annexed the Crimean Peninsula and backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine.Washington firmly insists that it wants both Russia and Ukraine to make concessions if ceasefire talks ever materialize.But Lavrov firmly insisted that Moscow would not jeopardize on the Ukrainian territory its forces have actually seized over years of fighting, saying there might not even be a idea of that throughout negotiations.The Kremlin declares to have actually annexed the Ukrainian areas of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson andZaporizhzhiadespite not having complete control of them.