Russia’s top economic negotiator has claimed that some countries are trying to disrupt Moscow’s “very useful” dialogue with the United States, as senior European and US officials meet in Paris to push for peace in Ukraine.
As Donald Trump’s reported Easter deadline for a truce rapidly approaches, his secretary of state Marco Rubio and Moscow-friendly envoy Steve Witkoff are in the French capital for what Washington billed as talks with French officials over the war in Ukraine.