Moscow, Aug. 24 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused Western countries of deliberately attempting to obstruct the peace negotiation process with Ukraine, warning that such efforts will ultimately fail, the state news agency TASS reported on Sunday.

According to TASS, in an interview with the state-owned broadcaster VGTRK's journalist Pavel Zarubin, the Russian Foreign Minister emphasised that attempts to derail the diplomatic process, originally initiated by Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump during the Alaska summit, would be "thwarted".

Lavrov noted that Putin had described the summit as "fruitful" and emphasised the need to "turn the page" and resume cooperation between the two countries....