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That there is direct contact between the Americans and the Russians is not a bad thing if it is about finding a way to a durable and lasting peace,
said a foreign ministry spokesman in Berlin I don't know what they would do at the negotiating table... if they are going to sit at the negotiating table with the aim of continuing war, then why invite them there?,
Lavrov told a press conference in Moscow How should we give in - with Russian people or with rare earth metals?"
Territorial concessions to what is now called Ukraine were made by the Soviet leadership during the formation of the USSR,
Lavrov said before heaping scorn on a Ukrainian bid to do a deal giving the United States access to minerals Today, (Foreign Minister Sergei) Lavrov and (Putin aide) Yuri Ushakov will fly to Riyadh and a meeting is expected Tuesday with the Americans, devoted primarily to restoring the whole complex of Russian-American relations,
news agency AFP quoted Peskov as saying It will also be devoted to preparing possible negotiations on a Ukrainian settlement [as the Russians say about their unprovoked aggression against Ukraine – ed.] and organising a meeting between the two presidents,
What we have right now is a call between Putin and President Trump in which both sides expressed an interest in ending this conflict,
The end of this war, when it comes, cannot merely become a temporary pause before Putin attacks again.”