Charles Mains
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145 appearances
32 recordings
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 24 Jul
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While the transcript has not been independently verified by NPR, Trump is already downplaying its contents, telling reporters Witkoff was engaged in a standard form of negotiation.
Charles Baines, NPR News, Moscow.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia welcomed the initial version of a U.S.
peace plan for Ukraine.
One critic said it was heavily tilted in Russia's favor, but that Lavrov claimed mirrored consensus that came out of the Putin-Trump meeting in Alaska.
Lavrov said Moscow is still waiting to hear about a newly amended version of the U.S.
plan, now with input from Ukraine and European powers.
Lavrov's comments came as Russian and American representatives are set to gather in the United Arab Emirates to discuss those very changes.
Meanwhile, fighting has continued alongside the diplomacy, with heavy Russian attacks overnight on the Ukrainian capital Kiev and Ukrainian drones striking border regions of Russia.
Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia welcomed the initial version of a U.S.
peace plan for Ukraine.
One critic said it was heavily tilted in Russia's favor, but that Lavrov claimed mirrored consensus that came out of the Putin-Trump meeting in Alaska.
Lavrov said Moscow is still waiting to hear about a newly amended version of the U.S.
plan, now with input from Ukraine and European powers.
Lavrov's comments came as Russian and American representatives are set to gather in the United Arab Emirates to discuss those very changes.
Meanwhile, fighting has continued alongside the diplomacy, with heavy Russian attacks overnight on the Ukrainian capital Kiev and Ukrainian drones striking border regions of Russia.
Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow.
The new sanctions take aim at Rosneft and Lukoil, two oil majors that make up nearly half of all Russian oil exports.
Yet reacting to the move, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova insisted Russia's economy had developed a strong immunity to years of Western sanctions and called the policy counterproductive to Trump's efforts to negotiate peace in Ukraine.
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