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Lavrov clarified his “not long to wait” phrase on relations with the United States

October 3, 2025

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov clarified his “not long to wait” phrase on the prospects for US-Russia relations, and said “the truth will prevail.”

Recall that Lavrov said this phrase on Wednesday, April 5, during a conversation with the journalist of the Rossiya 1 TV channel Pavel Zarubin. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said that the Russian Federation and the United States are “in the hot phase of the war”. He noted that relations between Moscow and Washington must be maintained, as the Foreign Ministry still has hope that “Americans will wake up to reason.”

“I meant that the truth would prevail anyway, there is no doubt about that. In historical terms, the word ‘not for long’ can be applied to different time periods, but in historical terms it is definitely not for long,” Lavrov said Friday at a joint press conference with Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. Foreign Affairs.

The day before, Sergei Lavrov had arrived in Turkey at the invitation of the country’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu.

Earlier, Lavrov said that Russia views the European Union as a hostile association.

Lavrov’s post clarified his “not long to wait” phrase on relations with the United States, which

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The Russia Desk leads The Eastern Herald's coverage of Russia, the war in Ukraine, NATO's eastern flank, and the post-Soviet space. The desk has reported continuously on the Russia-Ukraine conflict since its full-scale expansion in February 2022 and verifies through Kremlin statements, NATO briefings.

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