Idle talk about resolving the Ukraine issue cannot satisfy Moscow because a ceasefire would be a dead-end at this point. We need final, legally binding agreements.

Axar.az reports that this was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

"A lot has been said on the issue. The [Russian] president has repeatedly spoken about it, particularly during his question-and-answer session, the Valdai Discussion Club event and on other occasions. We won’t be satisfied with idle talk. What we have heard so far is talk about the need to come up with a ceasefire, and no one actually hides that the goal of the ceasefire is to buy time in order to continue flooding Ukraine with weapons and make it possible for them to put themselves together, carry out a mobilization and so on," he noted.