US president says Europeans pushing for meeting as ‘Coalition of Willing’ due to hold call about war
In the last hour, we have also heard from Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, who said Russia insisted in its talks with the US on “a set of agreements for lasting, sustainable peace with security guarantees for all countries involved.”
He said that Russia has sent to the US its own proposals on security guarantees.
“Our talks with the US president and his team are focused precisely on finding a long-term solution to eliminate the root causes of this crisis,” he said.
“The root causes of this crisis” is the key phrase here, as Russia has repeatedly used it to describe its maximalist demands towards Ukraine.
