{"id":105165,"date":"2026-10-31T05:29:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=105165"},"modified":"2026-10-31T05:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:29:39","slug":"eu-accuses-russia-of-false-narratives-as-lavrov-questions-ukraines-commitment-to-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/eu-accuses-russia-of-false-narratives-as-lavrov-questions-ukraines-commitment-to-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"EU accuses Russia of false narratives as Lavrov questions Ukraine\u2019s commitment to talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s remarks about continuing strikes on Russian targets, saying they undermined preparations for fresh peace talks, while the European Union\u2019s top diplomat accused Moscow of spreading \u201clies\u201d and showing no genuine readiness to negotiate.<\/p>\n<p>The contrasting positions underscored persistent divisions over efforts to end the war in Ukraine, as foreign ministers gathered for a Group of 20 meeting in Atlanta ahead of expected trilateral negotiations involving Russia, Ukraine and the United States next month.<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the two-day gathering, said Moscow&#8217;s position on the conflict remained unchanged and questioned what Kyiv intended to bring to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur position is known, but what Ukraine intends to bring to the negotiating table, I don\u2019t know,\u201d he was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.<\/p>\n<p>He said Zelensky&#8217;s repeated statements about Ukraine acquiring additional weapons to strike Russian targets made preparations for negotiations more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis kind of attitude doesn\u2019t really help much in preparing for negotiations,\u201d Lavrov said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s remarks about continuing strikes on Russian targets, saying they undermined preparations for fresh peace talks, while the European Union\u2019s top diplomat accused Moscow of spreading \u201clies\u201d and showing no genuine readiness to negotiate. The contrasting positions underscored persistent divisions over efforts to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":105186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105187,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105165\/revisions\/105187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}