Russian foreign minister reveals Moscow's demands for next round of talks with Ukraine

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that in the next round of negotiations with Ukraine, the date of which will be announced shortly, Russia will insist on the repeal of discriminatory laws restricting the Russian language and on Ukraine's non-aligned and non-nuclear status.

Source: RIA Novosti and Interfax, Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlets 

Quote from Lavrov: "At these talks on 16 May in Istanbul, we insisted on the repeal of these discriminatory laws [restricting the Russian language – Interfax], and we will continue to do so in the next round of direct talks, which we will announce in the near future."

Details: Lavrov said that one of the conditions for ending the war for the Kremlin is also "the neutral, non-aligned, non-nuclear status of Ukraine".

"I have said many times that the trigger for the conflict [the war unleashed by the Russian Federation – ed.] in Ukraine and, more broadly, the deep security crisis in Europe was precisely NATO's aggressive expansion eastward over many years," he said.

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