Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba met on the sidelines of a diplomatic forum in the Turkish resort city of Antalya for three-way talks joined by Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
Kuleba described the meeting as “difficult,” accusing his counterpart of bringing Russia’s “traditional narratives” about Ukraine to the table.
He said he wanted to emerge from the meeting with an agreement on a humanitarian corridor from the besieged city of Mariupol but “unfortunately Minister Lavrov was not in a position to commit to it,” he told reporters after the meeting.
Referring to the two sides’ failure to make any progress toward a ceasefire, Kuleba suggested Russia was not interested in ending the conflict. READ MORE
