Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an interview with NBC News recorded yesterday, said no meeting is planned between Russian President Vladimir Putin and acting president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The full interview is expected to be broadcast Sunday, Aug. 24.
“Putin is ready to meet with Zelenskyy when the agenda is ready for a summit, and this agenda is not ready at all,” he told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker. “President Putin said clearly that he is ready to meet, provided this meeting is really going to have an agenda, presidential agenda,” Lavrov said. “President Trump suggested, after Anchorage, several points which we share and on some of them, we agreed to be … to show some flexibility.”
