One step closer to the coveted peace seems to be the Ukraine and the Russiafollowing the separate agreements drawn up by the United States into separate agreements with Kiev and Moscow on safe navigation in the Black Sea.
On Tuesday night (25.3.2025), Donald Trump assured he assured during an interview with Newsmax that Russia wants to end the war with Ukraine, but acknowledged that Moscow is probably stuck.
“I think Russia wants to see this end, but it could also (be true) that it drags its legs,” the Republican president said.
Purpose of the Black Sea Agreement is to reinstate Russia in an predictable way to international grain and fertilizer marketsIn order to obtain revenue and at the same time guarantee global food security, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was judged on Tuesday.
The United States has closed – separate – agreements with Ukraine and Russia, which predicts that hostilities in the Black Sea be stopped and that the wounds be ceased against energy facilities. In the context of the agreements, Washington promised to lift some sanctions against Moscow.
Lavrov: ‘We are worried about nutritional safety’
“We want the purchase of cereals and fertilizers to be predictable” and “no one is trying to ‘exclude’ us,” Lavrov explained in an interview on the channel one on Russian television.
“Not only because we want (…) a fair profit in fair competition, but also because we are worried about the situation in nutritional safety in Africa and other countries in the world,” he continued.
If implemented, the deal will be the first step in US President Donald Trump’s project to have a general ceasefire and progress to end the war that began three years ago between Russia and Ukraine.
Lavrov, a veteran diplomat, at the helm of the Russian Foreign Minister since 2004, noted that the optimism expressed by US presidency envoy, Steve Whitkov, who said that the broader ceasefire may not be a fact that they could not be a fact.
Whitkov looks like ‘Overpames the elites of European countries’as they would prefer not to “allow” Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski to “indulge”, the head of Russian diplomacy said. After all, Mr. Zelenski “wants to give in,” he added.
Sergei Lavrov said that Donald Trump and his government want to restore bilateral relations and added that Moscow agrees with the current government in Washington that the conflicts between the two largest nuclear forces could not be allowed to be allowed.
However, he hastened to add that Moscow would continue to be vigilant, regardless of negotiations with Washington. “Trust, but to verify” – this was the order of (former US President Ronald) Reagan. We will not forget it. “
Zelenski: If Russia violates the agreement we will request sanctions and weapons
Volodimir Zelenski said that the “double agreement” on the cessation of military raids on the Black Sea and energy infrastructure, with Washington’s mediation, was a step in the right direction, but rushed to warn: “If there is a Russian violation.”
Zelenski added that “Ukrainian and US officials agreed that” third parties “, such as Turkey could oversee aspects of a future truce Between Russia and Ukraine. “
“For example, Turkey may get involved in the sea situation, and maybe someone from the Middle East in terms of energy,” Zelenski said.