A "No Drone Zone" sign is pictured in front of the Russian national flag atop the Federation Council building, the upper chamber of Russia's parliament, in central Moscow on April 12, 2023. Russian forces shot down 287 Ukrainian drones overnight, one of the highest single-night totals of their conflict, and Moscow airports temporarily closed, the defence ministry and officials said on Dec. 11, 2025. (Credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP)
Russia wants a package of documents agreed to underpin a long-term and sustainable peace deal in Ukraine with security guarantees for all parties involved, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
Lavrov said Moscow believed U.S. President Donald Trump was sincere in his efforts to try to broker a deal, which Lavrov reiterated should address the "the root causes" of the conflict.
"We insist on a set of agreements for lasting, sustainable peace with security guarantees for all countries involved. Our talks with the U.S. president and his team are focused precisely on finding a long-term solution to eliminate the root causes of this crisis," Lavrov said.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian drones struck an oil rig belonging to Russia in the Caspian sea for the first time, halting the facility's extraction of oil and gas, a source in Ukraine's SBU security service told Reuters on Thursday.
The source said SBU drones hit the Filanovsky oil rig, which belongs to Russian oil major Lukoil. The source said that at least four strikes had been recorded on the target.
Lukoil did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
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