In a major setback for President-elect Donald Trump’s hopes of swiftly ending the war in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday that the Kremlin was resistant to a peace plan proposed by the incoming president’s allies.

Lavrov told Russian state-run outlet Tass that there have been no “official signals regarding a settlement in Ukraine,” but Moscow was not receptive to the unofficial ideas that had been floated.

“We are not happy, of course, with the proposals made by members of the Trump team to postpone Ukraine’s admission to NATO for 20 years and to station British and European peacekeeping forces in Ukraine,” he said, referring to leaked reports of Trump’s proposals.

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