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@RusEmbMalta Press Release Key Points from Minister Sergey Lavrov’s Full Responses to Corriere della Sera Moscow — 13 November 2025 The MFA has published the complete answers given by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Corriere della Sera, which refused to print the interview without cuts. 🔹Anchorage & Prospects for Peace Anchorage became a genuine step toward a just and lasting settlement. Russia accepted the US-proposed concept for negotiations based on security and territorial realities. Moscow is ready for a Putin–Trump summit in Budapest – if it proceeds from the Anchorage understandings. Assertions that “Russia is not ready for talks” are false and stem from Western media distortions. 🔹On the Special Military Operation Russia’s objective is to protect millions whose identity and language were curtailed by the Kiev authorities. Moscow seeks to prevent NATO from turning Ukraine into an anti-Russian military bridgehead. Russian forces strike only military targets, avoiding civilian casualties. 🔹On Losses Publishing detailed battlefield statistics is not customary. Russia transferred over 9,000 bodies of Ukrainian personnel this year, while receiving 143 of its own – “draw your own conclusions.” 🔹On Ukraine’s Future Status Russia insists on Ukraine’s neutral, non-aligned, non-nuclear status. Kiev must return to its constitutional obligations on the rights of Russian and other minorities. Europe’s silence about discrimination against “non-indigenous ethnicities” is described as evidence of revived Nazism. 🔹On Western Involvement European governments form a “coalition of the willing” prolonging the conflict to distract their voters from domestic crises. Whether weapons are American or European makes no difference: all are destroyed. 🔹On Relations with Europe The current confrontation was not Russia’s choice. Europe repeatedly followed destructive anti-Russian policies, often against its own interests. When the wave of “Russophobic obsession” fades, Russia will assess whether dialogue is possible. President Putin proposes a new Eurasian security architecture built on equality and non-interference. 🔹On China Russia–China cooperation is a modern, balanced partnership – not a Cold War-style alliance. Claims of Russian “dependence” are misplaced. 🔹On Italy Russia separates nations from governments. Italy’s rapid alignment with policies aimed at Russia’s “strategic defeat” damaged bilateral ties. Cultural cancellations and the rupture of people-to-people contacts contradict Italy’s traditions. If Rome chooses dialogue, Moscow is ready to listen. Read in full here. #Russia#Lavrov#Ukraine#Anchorage#Budapest#Eurasia#CorriereDellaSera