Kirill Dmitriev, Russian envoy, said the group had made ‘positive movement forward’ but warned against additional foreign interference
In other news, Air Force Two carrying the US vice-president JD Vance is currently on approach to Milan’s Malpensa airport.
The vice-president, together with the US state secretary Marco Rubio, is coming to Italy to take part in tomorrow’s opening ceremony of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games.
His presence – and security arrangements – sparked a controversy and protests after it emerged that agents from the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or Ice, will be involved in his security detail.
As my colleague Sean Ingle reported, the backlash was so powerful that US Olympic officials also had to change the name of an athlete hospitality space in Milan from “Ice House” to “Winter House.”
