Lavrov: “healthy forces” have awoken in Czechia

According to the Russian state news agency TASS, Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov named the Czech Republic among the European countries where “healthy forces” oriented towards their own national interests rather than imperial ambitions have awakened. According to Lavrov, these “healthy forces” have awakened “not only in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, but also in Germany and France.”

At the same time, the head of Russian diplomacy said at a press conference, according to the Interfax agency, that Moscow is determined to find a diplomatic solution to the war it has been waging against Ukraine for a fourth year, and accused Europe of obstructing initiatives. Kyiv, by contrast, has repeatedly accused Moscow in the recent past of undermining peace talks.