Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has described the Ukraine peace conference, which is being prepared by Switzerland, as an unacceptable attempt to present Moscow with an ultimatum to meet the demands set by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Speaking in an interview with Alternative Television, which is controlled by Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, Lavrov again accused the West of a conspiracy against Russia, saying that the military aid to Ukraine is only flaring up the war and that China and South Africa are the only countries making serious efforts to help stop the war.

“We do not expect integrity and order from our Western partners,” Lavrov said in a pre-recorded interview that was broadcast on Sunday evening. He added that Moscow now has no one in the West to negotiate with and that therefore the Russian military is continuing to carry out its tasks as part of the special military operation, the term used by Russia to refer to its invasion of Ukraine.

Lavrov pointed out that the demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine are “absolutely necessary steps”, accusing the government in Kyiv of introducing “racial laws to affirm the ideology of Nazism.” He also accused EU and NATO leaders of following this policy.

Lavrov said that Russia's biggest enemy at the moment is French President Emmanuel Macron because he openly says that the West should be prepared to send troops to Ukraine if necessary. He accused Macron of “Russophobia in an attempt to become the leader of Europe.”

“The Balkans is also part of the conspiracy, Croats too are targeted by unitarisation”

Lavrov also attacked the West over the situation in the Balkans, including the planned adoption of a UN resolution to honour the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide and the admission of Kosovo to the Council of Europe.

He said that this is yet another proof that the West is not giving up its policy to “break” Serbia and the Serbs as part of a global conspiracy to destroy Orthodox Christianity and instal the US-controlled patriarch of Istanbul as their religious leader.

Lavrov praised Dodik as the only true fighter for the authentic interpretation of the Dayton agreement, which ended the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and accused the international High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Christian Schmidt, of attempting to implement the project of “unitarisation of Bosnia and Herzegovina”.

He said that in addition to the Serbs, the Croats are also targeted by unitarisation.

“He (Schmidt) is trying to play with some political forces of the Croats in central Bosnia, but the Croats also have their own view of that and of the way in which they will defend their identity and the Dayton principles of the equality of the three constituent nations,” Lavrov said, without explaining his assessment in greater detail.

Last year, former members of the Croat HDZ BiH party in that part of the country refused obedience to the party's leadership in Mostar. A prominent member of that party, Ivo Tadic, was the first to do so, and was joined by the Mayor of Varec, Zdravko Marosevic.

They founded a new political party called the Croatian Democratic Alliance (HDS), which will try to win some of the mayoral positions in local elections due in October, including the one in Zepce, a long-term political stronghold of the HDZ BiH.