Lavrov praises Trumps understanding of Ukraine conflict causes

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10 Dec 2025, 14:38 GMT+10

The US president grasps Moscows view of what made the hostilities inevitable, the Russian foreign minister has said

US President Donald Trump is the only Western leader who comprehends the real reasons for the Ukraine conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

Addressing Russia's Federation Council, the upper chamber of parliament, on Wednesday, Lavrov said that while the US is "showing growing impatience" with the diplomatic process aimed at ending the hostilities, Trump is one of the few in the West who know what led to the conflict in the first place.

"President Trump... is the only one among all Western leaders who, immediately after arriving in the White House in January of this year, began to demonstrate an understanding of the reasons the war in Ukraine had been inevitable," he said.

Lavrov added that Trump "has a clear understanding" of the factors that shaped the hostile policies pursued toward Russia by the West and by former US President Joe Biden, which, he said, "had been nurtured for many years."

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