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Click “Meet the NBC” press “Meet the press” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov On Sunday, he acknowledged that Russia had invaded Ukraine when Lavrov accused NBC leading something “sell” during his show.
“Did Russia invade Ukraine, Mr. Foreign Affairs? Russia Break Ukraine? asked Wellker Lavrov.
Wellker also pressed Lavrov, or he believed Ukraine She had the right to exist before she pushed the Russian Foreign Minister to admit that Russia had invaded Ukraine.
“Russia started (a) a special military operation to protect people who (President Ukraine Volodimir) Zelensky and his predecessor did not consider people,” Lavrov said. “They called them suspicious. You must, look, you must really – I understand that you need to sell something today – but if you rise and touch on such serious things, my suggestion is to look at the history of Ukrainian development after the 2014 coup.”
NBC Leading Kristen Welker performs during the “Get Finding the Press” on Sunday, August 24, 2025. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov applauds at the BRICS summit on July 6, 2025 in Rio -dera, Brazil. (Screenshot via NBC “Meet the Press”; Wagner Meier/Getty Images)
Welker noted that this question is “yes” or “no” and again asked: “Do you admit that Russia has invaded Ukraine?”
“I told you that we started special hostilities,” Lavrov replied. “To protect people whom the regime declared terrorists and enemies and whom the regime bombed.”
Then Wellker asked or Russian president Vladimir Putin He wanted peace, to which the laurels replied: “Yes.”
The NBC host also asked what he would tell us the legislators who consider Donald Trump.
On August 15, 2025, President Donald Trump welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ancoridge, Alaska. Both leaders met for peace talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. (Andrew Harnica/Getti Image)
“You know that not for legislators and for any media, you know that President Trump is motivated,” Lavrov said. “We respect President Trump because President Trump defends US national interests, and they have reason to believe that President Trump respects President Putin because he defends Russian national interests, and everything they discuss with each other is a secret. We want peace in Ukraine. Seace, the seace, the seace, the seace, the seace. Collecting in Washington From these European representatives and what they did after Washington, they testify that they do not want peace, ”he said.
Trump met with Zelensky and other European leaders in the White House earlier this week, just a few days after meeting with Putin in Alaska, and said he had about two weeks to determine how the US will enter Permanent negotiations.
President Donald Trump meets with the President of Ukraine Loladimir Zelensky in the Oval Cabinet at the White House on August 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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On Friday, Trump told reporters that he would better understand whether a deal will end the conflict and what US actions should take ahead for negotiations in the coming weeks.
“We’ll see what happens. I think in the next two weeks we will find out what way it will go,” Trump said.
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“It will be a very important solution,” Trump said. “And this, or are it massive sanctions or massive tariffs or both. Do we do nothing and say,” Is your struggle “?”
Diana Stancy Fox News contributed to this report.
