British Foreign Minister David Lammy said on Thursday he saw no appetite from Russia for peace with Ukraine after listening to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov talk at a closed-door meeting of the top G20 diplomats in South Africa.
U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he saw no appetite for peace from Russia in Ukraine after listening to a speech by Russia’s top diplomat at a tense Group of 20 meeting in South Africa on Thursday.
In his own speech before the foreign ministers meeting, U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy criticized Russia for what he called “Tsarist imperialism.”
The British foreign secretary launched an attack at Moscow over its ongoing aggression towards Ukraine while speaking to his G20 counterparts in South Africa. Lammy accused Russia
Lammy said G20 partners expected to hear more than what he described as the Russian gentleman’s tired fabrications.
Russia has “learned nothing” from “colonial failures and wars”, David Lammy has said, telling global foreign ministers that peace with Ukraine would mean President Vladimir Putin “finding a way forward which respects Ukraine’s sovereignty”.