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It is not clear for me why European countries should participate in negotiations on Ukraine,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday You know it used to be sort of not good to speak to the aggressor during the war, but the talks about the need for renewal of negotiations had been there for quite some time,
Ukraine will not take part in the negotiations. Ukraine did not know they were planned. And the visit to the region was planned long before the U.S. decided to meet Russia there,
So, once again, my visits have nothing in common with those talks. Although when I arrive in Saudi Arabia I will ask his majesty what he knows about the topics of the talks,
The war in Ukraine is against us, and it is our human losses,
the Eastern European president added I don't know what countries are supposed to do at talks on Ukraine."
Russia's Lavrov, meanwhile, weighed in on the confusion Monday, saying What we don't want to do is get into a large group discussion,
he told a fringe event in Munich, noting People weren’t ready to accept it at the time, its feminism,
It risks the worst of all possible worlds: a kind of stagflation,
said Stiglitz, a Columbia University professor and former World Bank economist I think he wants to stop fighting.”
They give important tactical and strategic details which, if leaked, would enormously benefit the Russians ahead of talks,
one senior former Nato officer said