Speaking at an embassy roundtable in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s stance on future peace negotiations, describing his terms as “utterly unrealistic and even rude.” Lavrov claimed that Moscow remains willing to resume talks from the point at which they were suspended, but lashed out at Kyiv’s demands that Europe propose negotiation formats while Ukraine dictates who represents the European side. Mocking Zelensky’s leadership,