No Breakthrough as Top U.S. and Russian Diplomats Meet Over Ukraine
ADNOC Issues Seventh Crude Tender Since June Despite Hormuz, Red Sea Risks RFE/RL journalists report the news in 21 countries where a free press is banned by the government or not fully established.
We provide what many… The top US and Russian diplomats met in a new push to find an end to Moscow's more-than-four-year-old war on Ukraine, but both sides signaled no new breakthroughs or cause for optimism.
The July 23 meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov came with US efforts to broker a peace deal frozen as the Trump administration shifts focus to the Iran war, and the Kremlin shows no sign of softening its maximalist war demands.
Following their meeting, which lasted just 35 minutes, Rubio described the talks as "good" and "frank" but said fresh proposals would be needed after previous peace ideas failed.
"The United States...is prepared to play a constructive role in bringing about an end to a senseless war," Rubio said when pressed by RFE/RL.
Asked whether the meeting had produced any breakthrough, Rubio dismissed expectations of rapid progress.
"You think we settled the war in Ukraine in our 30 minutes here in Asia? That's not the way it works," he said.
Asked later by RFE/RL about when Russia will stop the war, Lavrov appeared to either ignore the question or not hear it.
In a statement,Russia's Foreign Ministry said Lavrov expressed Moscow's unhappiness with US weapons supplies to Ukraine, and he accused Ukraine's European allies of "destabilizing policies" that seek a "strategic defeat" for Russia.
Lavrov also raised the issue of a meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, the ministry said.
The Kremlin has insisted that, in Anchorage, Trump and Putin reached a key agreement on ending the Ukraine war.
Rubio and other US officials have repeatedly denied that.
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