Sergei Lavrov says President Vladimir Putin would not refuse to meet Volodymyr Zelensky

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after meeting with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister that President Vladimir Putin would not refuse a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss "specific" issues.

According to hi , everyone knows that President Putin never refuses contact, “we just want it not to be contact for contact, but to reach concrete agreements.

“We have confirmed today that Vladimir Putin is not refusing to meet with President Zelensky. I hope that there will be such a need, but it will require preparatory work, which should be carried out in Belarus, where 3 rounds of talks have already taken place and the Ukrainian side were informed of our specific offers. They promised us that we would give us a concrete answer, we are waiting," Lavrov said.