Lifting Sanctions Against Russia Part Of Peace Talks With Ukraine Lavrov Says
Kyiv warned on Friday that talks to end Russia’s third-month invasion were in danger of collapsing. “At the moment, the Russian and Ukrainian delegations are actually discussing on a daily basis by teleconference a draft of a possible treaty,” Lavrov told the official Chinese news agency Xinhua, which was posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has insisted since the start of the invasion on February 24 that Western sanctions on Russia should be strengthened and could not be part of the negotiations....