MOSCOW, April 4. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will participate in a Ukraine-themed roundtable at the Russian Foreign Ministry’s diplomatic academy, bringing together ambassadors from more than 70 countries of the Global South and East, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

The roundtable is headlined ‘The Ukrainian crisis: Law and Human Rights Dimension.’

The Russian Foreign Ministry said such meetings were important, because they allowed an "open discussion about current issues of the conflict in Ukraine with members of the diplomatic corps." According to Lavrov, the discussions bring together "ambassadors from countries that make up the global majority."

Lavrov is expected to raise questions, related to Kiev’s latest attacks on the Russian territory and to outcomes of Russia’s investigations. The discussion is likely to focus on the recent deadly attack on the Crocus City Hall venue and attacks on Russian borderline territories.

It will be the fourth meeting in this format. The previous discussion took place in January 2024, and centered around the Kiev regime’s militarization. Earlier roundtables were devoted to mediation and humanitarian initiatives as well as to anti-Russian sanctions and their impact on the global economy.

Russia’s demands

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that investigative actions carried out by Russian law enforcement authorities point to Ukrainian fingerprints on several terrorist attacks perpetrated inside Russia, including the attack on Crocus City Hall.

In this connection, the Foreign Ministry formally conveyed to the Ukrainian government a set of demands, within the framework of the 1997 International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and the 1999 International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, calling for the immediate arrest and extradition of all persons involved in these terrorist acts. Among Moscow’s demands is that Kiev arrest Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) head Vasily Malyuk, who "cynically admitted on March 25 that Ukraine had organized the bombing of the Crimean Bridge in October 2022 and revealed details of the organization of other terrorist attacks in Russia."

In this regard, Lavrov is expected to convey the Russian stance to other participants, who will then exchange opinions on this issue and other pressing problems.

The participants are also expected to discuss joint anti-terrorism efforts and other international problems, including the Middle East conflict, relations between the Global South and the West, and the global economic downturn caused by illegitimate sanctions.