The agency of the aggressor country informed that Rubio and Lavrov talked about how things are with the implementation of the agreements of US President Donald Trump and the illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin of May 19.
They also discussed the training of Moscow for the next round of direct negotiations with Kiev, which Lavrov announced in Istanbul on June 2.
Rubio, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, emphasized Trump’s focus on the speedy end of the Russian-Ukrainian war, and also expressed Washington's readiness to promote the position of the parties.
The American State Department has not yet commented on the conversation.
Context
After negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow in Istanbul, Trump held a telephone conversation with Putin, as a result of which the head of the White House He stated that Ukraine and the Russian Federation will “immediately start negotiations on the end of the war. Putin said that Kyiv and Moscow plan to prepare a document on a possible upcoming peace agreement. His spokeswoman Dmitry Peskov said that the deadlines for preparing this document “is not and cannot be.”
On May 23, Lavrov reported that Russia will submit a draft document with its conditions of ceasefire in Ukraine after completing the exchange of prisoners in the “1000 per 1000” format. The last stage of the exchange took place on May 25.
On May 28, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that neither in Kyiv nor in Washington had yet seen the proposal of Moscow. The assistant Putin, who headed the negotiation group from the Russian Federation, Vladimir Medinsky, who allegedly called the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umarov with a proposal for a meeting of delegations, where the parties would exchange their proposals. The speaker of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that Moscow is allegedly not going to provide Washington with a list of its requirements.
