{"id":580370,"date":"2026-09-23T19:47:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=580370"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T17:20:14","slug":"lavrov-says-russia-will-not-pause-war-for-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lavrov-says-russia-will-not-pause-war-for-talks","title":{"rendered":"Lavrov Says Russia Will Not Pause War for Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Russia does not intend to pause military operations during negotiations with Ukraine in any format. Russian Foreign Minister <strong>Sergei Lavrov<\/strong> made the statement at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine on September 23, TASS <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/politika\/28144391\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHaving learned from bitter experience, we will not pause the \u2018special military operation\u2019 for the duration of negotiations in any format,\u201d<\/em> the agency quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n<p>In his view, European countries want such a pause to give Ukraine time to replenish its military stocks.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAlthough Europe wants precisely this, with the same straightforward goal of gaining a respite and replenishing the depleted military arsenals of the Kyiv regime, which, out of desperation, switched to openly terrorist methods long ago,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ukraine-agrees-to-full-immediate-and-unconditional-ceasefire-statement\">declared its readiness for a full, immediate and unconditional ceasefire<\/a> and called on Russia to do the same. The joint statement was signed by 51 UN member states. The signatories called on Russia to end its aggression, agree to a ceasefire and fully participate in negotiations aimed at achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace.<\/p>\n<p>They also called for the immediate, safe and full return to Ukraine of all Ukrainian civilians who have been arbitrarily detained, forcibly transferred or deported, including children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia does not intend to pause military operations during negotiations with Ukraine in any format. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the statement at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine on September 23, TASS reports. \u201cHaving learned from bitter experience, we will not pause the \u2018special military operation\u2019 for the duration of negotiations in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":561795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6ab40a5222093.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lavrov Says Russia Will Not Pause War for Talks"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143121,143122,143123],"class_list":["post-580370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna","tag-rossija","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580371,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580370\/revisions\/580371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}