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Russia\u2019s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that Ukraine\u2019s proposed peace plan as well as the latest UN proposals to revive the Black Sea grain initiative were both \u201cnot realistic\u201d.<\/p>\n
Lavrov spoke after a week of intense global diplomacy at the annual gathering of world leaders at UN headquarters in New York where Ukraine and its Western allies sought to drum up support for Kyiv<\/a> as it fights a war on its territory against the invading Russia.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is completely not feasible,\u201d Lavrov said of a 10-point peace blueprint promoted by Kyiv. \u201cIt is not possible to implement this. It\u2019s not realistic and everybody understands this, but at the same time, they say this is the only basis for negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n He said the conflict would be resolved on the battlefield if Kyiv and the West stuck to that stance.<\/p>\n Lavrov added that Moscow left the Black Sea grain initiative because promises made to Russia \u2014 including on removing sanctions on a Russian bank and reconnecting it to the global Swift payment system \u2014 had not been met.<\/p>\n He said the latest UN proposals to revive that export corridor for Ukrainian agricultural products were \u201csimply not realistic\u201d.<\/p>\n