Speaking during a visit to Turkiye, Lavrov stated that the peace talks should include an "ironclad" agreement that Ukraine will not join NATO. At the same time, Russia "will not be satisfied" with the option of "peace at once,

US and Russian diplomats are likely to meet next week in a follow up to the Riyadh talks between the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the US secretary of State Marco Rubio, reported Russian News agency TASS.

Russia is open for economic cooperation with the U.S., President Vladimir Putin' new special envoy on international economic cooperation said in response to President Donald Trump's call for "major economic development transactions with Russia".

Amid talks with the United States in Riyadh on Tuesday, Russia demanded NATO scrap its 2008 promise to one day give Ukraine membership of the U.S.-led alliance and dismissed the idea that NATO ...

As European countries discuss the possibility of contributing peacekeepers to back any Ukraine peace deal, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said in Riyadh that Russia would not accept deployment of NATO troops there, whatever flag they were operating under.

Officials feasted on lamb and knafeh cheesecake with US representatives while Ukraine was frozen out of negotiations

Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio are meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh, but Ukraine has not been invited.

Ukrainian president also rules out US-Ukraine minerals deal if it meant repaying Washington for military aid already provided under Biden

While U.S. officials characterized the talks as the first step in a peace deal, the Russians are portraying them as a way to end Moscow’s isolation.

US President Donald Trump called Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky “a dictator,” escalating a public war of words between the two leaders that started when Trump falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia.