Russia will not agree to European demands for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

Axar.az reports, citing Interfax, that Lavrov made the remarks while commenting on the possible participation of European representatives in the trilateral talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States.

“All that is currently being heard from Brussels and other EU capitals is a demand for an immediate ceasefire. In other words, the old logic again: they absolutely need to buy time for their clients in the Kyiv regime and use that time to somehow recover from the military losses it has suffered. We will not agree to this; this has been stated many times,” Lavrov said.

He said the idea of first establishing clear parameters for a future security architecture and then moving on to resolving the Russian-Ukrainian conflict was “absolutely reasonable”.

He added that Moscow would not accept another truce or ceasefire without understanding what would follow.

"We will not agree to another truce, another ceasefire, whatever it may be called, without understanding what will happen next,” he added.