(Reuters) -Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov held calls on Saturday together with his Turkish and Hungarian counterparts, the Russian overseas ministry mentioned, hours after a summit between the U.S. and Russian presidents yielded no deal on ending the warin Ukraine.
President Donald Trump, who hosted President Vladimir Putinin Alaska on Friday for bilateral talks aimed toward ending the conflict that Russia launched with a full-scale invasion on Ukraine in early 2022, mentioned that Kyiv ought to make a take care of Moscow as a result of “Russia is a really massive energy, and so they’re not.”
The telephone name between Lavrov and Turkish International Minister Hakan Fidan came about at Turkey’s initiative, the Russian overseas ministry mentioned in a press release on its web site.
“The overseas ministers exchanged views on the outcomes of the high-level Russia–U.S. assembly held in Alaska on August 15,” the ministry mentioned in its brief assertion.
Turkey has tried to maintain diplomatic channels open to either side through the conflict, appearing as a NATO member, a companion for each Russia and Ukraine, and a possible mediator.
Lavrov additionally held a name with Hungarian International Minister Peter Szijjarto, the Russian overseas ministry mentioned, wherein “the events mentioned points associated to the Ukrainian disaster within the context of the outcomes of the Russia–U.S. summit.”
Hungary has maintained shut ties with Russia all through the conflict, typically opposing EU sanctions and persevering with vitality cooperation with Moscow, and drawing criticism from Western allies of Kyiv.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban mentioned on Saturday after the Putin-Trump assembly that “the world is a safer place than it was yesterday,” whereas different European leaders reiterated of their joint assertion that “will probably be as much as Ukraine to make selections on its territory.”
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Enhancing by Matthew Lewis)