Russia Rejects Zelensky Meeting
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The European Union has paid out further financial aid amounting to €4.05 billion ($4.7 billion) to Ukraine as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov poured cold water on the idea of a meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders any time soon.
The Kremlin hasn't ruled out summits but has said they could only meet in the very final stages of clinching a peace agreement.
The highly anticipated summit ended without a breakthrough. Afterwards, Trump said Ukraine and Russia should proceed straight to seeking a full peace deal instead of a cease-fire.
Doing so would require the Russian leader to “accept the failure of sitting down with a president he considers a joke from a country that doesn’t exist”
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