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Russian foreign minister tells DW journalist not to believe Ukrainian officials

TASS31 October 2026, 03:25 UTCRussia

Responding to a question about why Moscow prefers a phone call between the president and Vladimir Zelensky to a "face-to-face meeting," Sergey Lavrov said that Vladimir Putin had repeatedly expressed his readiness to meet with Zelensky in Moscow

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