It seems that US President-elect Donald Trump’s team did not like our proposals: the delay of Ukraine’s NATO membership and the settlement of the issue of deployment of peacekeepers,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during an interview with the Russian News Agency TASS on Sunday (December 29).
Citing leaks and Trump’s interview with Time magazine on 12 December, Lavrov said, “He is talking about ‘freezing’ hostilities along the line of engagement and transferring further responsibility for confronting Russia to the Europeans.”
We can hardly be satisfied with proposals from the representatives of the president-elect’s team to postpone Ukraine’s membership in NATO for 20 years and to deploy a peacekeeping contingent of ‘UK and European forces’ in Ukraine, Alexander Viktorovich said.
Until January 20, the date of his inauguration, Donald Trump is the ‘president-elect,’ and the incumbent president and his administration determine all policies on all fronts. So far, only the latter is authorized to engage with Russia on behalf of the United States, the Kremlin spokesman added.
