Lavrov: “Putin-Zelensky meeting only after resuming negotiations”

It will be possible to evaluate a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky only after the resumption of the negotiation process between Moscow and Kiev. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on a visit to Ankara. “We start from the fact that in the beginning it is necessary for the negotiating teams to get back to work,” Lavrov said at the end of the meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. Read also Lavrov then blamed Ukraine for stalling the negotiations. “The ball has been on the side of the Ukrainians for almost two months, since mid-April, when they changed the approach outlined in Istanbul, which we were ready to accept as a basis. We presented them with a draft agreement in mid-April, but since then. we have not received any feedback “, he concluded.