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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that Russia wants to understand what motivated US President Donald Trump's statement that Russia must agree to a peace deal in Ukraine within a 50-day deadline.
"Certainly, we would like to understand what is behind this statement about 50 days. Earlier, there were also the deadlines of 24 hours and of 100 days, we’ve seen it all and really would like to understand the motivation of the US president," the top Russian diplomat told a news conference after the meeting of foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member countries in China’s Tianjin, Tass reported.
Lavrov noted enormous pressure on Trump. "It is clear that he is under enormous, I would say, shameless pressure by the European Union and NATO’s current leadership which recklessly supports Zelensky’s demands and continues to flood it with modern weapons, including offensive ones, at the expense of greater and greater damage to taxpayers in Western countries."