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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held calls on Saturday with his Turkish and Hungarian counterparts, the Russian foreign ministry said, hours after a summit between the U.S. and Russian presidents yielded no deal on ending the war in Ukraine.
Government documents with details about meeting schedules and seating charts − as well as an extravagant menu − were accidentally left in a hotel printer.
President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday for peace talks regarding the Ukraine war.
The highly anticipated summit ended without a breakthrough. Afterwards, Trump said Ukraine and Russia should proceed straight to seeking a full peace deal instead of a cease-fire.
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
In the early hours of Saturday morning following a summit in Alaska between the leaders of Russia and the United States, senior politicians in Moscow were quick to trumpet the meeting as a win for Russia and its narrative of the war in Ukraine.
One major vulnerability for Russia heading into the Alaska summit is its faltering economy. While analysts say that a weakening economy isn’t likely to deter President Vladimir Putin from pursuing his goals in Ukraine,
The problem is that they have no strategy of their own for ending the Ukraine war, other than hoping to contain Russia over the longer term.