MOSCOW, December 11. /TASS/. During their most recent meeting in the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff cleared up all misunderstandings between Moscow and Washington that emerged during a pause following the Alaska Summit, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday.
"Both the Russian and US sides have confirmed the mutual understandings reached at the Alaska Summit during the most recent visit [to Moscow] of US President [Donald] Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his meeting with Russian President [Vladimir] Putin," Lavrov said at a roundtable discussion with foreign ambassadors in Moscow.
"This was an extremely important result, because there was a certain impasse following the summit in Anchorage," he continued. "I believe that after the negotiations with the Americans here [in Moscow] all confusing points and misunderstandings have been eliminated."
According to Russia’s top diplomat, the Americans are interested in "understanding the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis, and that was reflected during the meeting of Presidents Putin and Trump in Anchorage on August 15."
"Mutual understandings were reached there, which we stand by and believe can serve as a starting point for a settlement," Lavrov emphasized.
