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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Europe and Ukraine of undermining the U.S. peace plan presented to Moscow at the Alaska summit in August
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russian overnight attacks killing five civilians prove Moscow is "preparing to continue fighting" rather than seeking peace.
Zelenskyy said Russia launched 129 attack drones against Ukraine overnight, with strikes killing five people and undermining trust in diplomatic efforts to end the war.
"Yesterday, the Russians struck a private house in Kharkiv with a drone. They killed three young children. Their father was also killed," Zelenskyy said on a social media post on X.
In the Sumy region, six people were injured and one killed in drone attacks. A city hospital in Zaporizhzhia was also struck, along with a railway depot in Konotop.
"Each such Russian strike undermines trust in everything being done diplomatically to end this war," Zelenskyy said.
"The Russian army is not preparing to stop; they are preparing to continue fighting," he noted.
Speaking in an interview with the Empatia Manuchi online project in Moscow, Lavrov claimed that peace initiatives remain "entirely absent" from Europe, while the U.S. made one such attempt through documents circulated following the presidential meeting in Anchorage.
"All subsequent versions reflected attempts by Zelenskyy and, principally, his patrons in Britain, Germany, France, and the Baltic states to 'r*pe' this American initiative," Lavrov said.
He said Russia is ready to compromise, but not on fundamental principles.
"Compromise cannot extend to fundamental principles upon which a state's existence depends—least of all when the lives of millions hang in the balance," Lavrov stated.
According to Lavrov, the U.S. document handed to Russia "has already gone through several rounds of review," but the latest version has never been shared with Moscow, either officially or unofficially.
Lavrov described proposed Western security guarantees for Ukraine as "extremely dangerous," saying Kyiv is not seeking mutual guarantees with Russia but rather military guarantees from the West against Russia.
"Any incident deemed unacceptable would supposedly serve as a trigger for such a war. And the capacity of Zelenskyy and his clowns to provoke such incidents is beyond comprehension," he said.
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy urged international partners to increase pressure on Russia and strengthen Ukraine's security guarantees.
"As long as pressure on the aggressor is insufficient and as long as security for us—for Ukraine—is not guaranteed, nothing else works," he said.
"Air defense for our state, packages to strengthen our resilience, and Russia's accountability for its actions are mandatory prerequisites for protecting life. Security is essential for peace," Zelenskyy stated.
Norway's military chief said Oslo cannot exclude the possibility of a future Russian invasion of the country, suggesting Moscow could move on Norway to protect its nuclear assets stationed in the far north.
"We don't exclude a land grab from Russia as part of their plan to protect their own nuclear capabilities, which is the only thing they have left that actually threatens the United States," said Gen. Eirik Kristoffersen, Norway's chief of defense, in an exclusive interview with The Guardian.
"These nuclear capabilities would be crucial if Russia came into conflict with NATO elsewhere," Kristoffersen explained.
"We don't take that off the table, because it's still an option for Russia to do that in order to make sure that their nuclear capabilities, their second strike capabilities, are protected. That's sort of the scenario in the high north that we plan for," he noted.
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