"These dreamers are certainly proving their complete political incompetence every day," Lavrov noted in an interview with the Russian Channel One broadcaster.
"They directly contradict the Trump administration, which through the lips of both the president himself, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser [Mike] Waltz has clearly said that preliminary negotiations on parameters for a final settlement are now underway," he said.
"Our position is simple [...] We cannot take this man [Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky] at his word. We want the grain market, the fertilizer market to be predictable, so that no one tries to discourage us from this market, not only because we want to get a legitimate profit in a fair competition, but also because we are concerned about the food security situation in African countries," the Russian foreign minister explained.
"Now our negotiators, who were nominated by [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin, in Riyadh reminded their American counterparts of this story. And they said that given the track record of both Ukraine itself and the whole Black Sea history, we would like there to be no ambiguities this time," Lavrov emphasized.
"Given all the 'second thoughts,' given that every time a ceasefire is declared and Ukraine agrees solely because at the particular historical moment in question, Ukraine was in a desperate situation on the battlefield, and as soon as there was a pause, immediately, within weeks or a couple of months, this ceasefire was violated, this has been the case throughout the entire duration of the Minsk agreements. So we now need the clearest, most concrete, verifiable and working guarantees and mechanisms," he pointed out.