Lavrov not optimistic about talks over Zelensky’s “angry stance”

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that angry statements by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did not inspire optimism about the fate of talks on ending hostilities in Ukraine, according to Reuters.

Earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said he was open to talks with Lavrov, but only if such talks made “sense.”

Lavrov also said Russia was checking information that Ukrainian authorities might not allow the evacuation of civilians from the city of Mariupol through previously agreed humanitarian corridors.

Russia has asked Washington for written assurances that sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine will not harm Russia’s co-operation with Iran under the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, which Tehran and Washington are seeking. to be revived, said today the head of Russian diplomacy.

“There are problems on the Russian side,” Lavrov told a news conference. military-technical cooperation with Iran “.

Source: Capital

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