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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday (May 13, 2026) that galore affirmative things were being said astir the tremendous imaginable of U.S.-Russia relations, but successful world "nothing is happening".
After winning the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, Donald Trump re-established U.S. dialog with Russian President Vladimir Putin and has repeatedly promised to extremity the war successful Ukraine though bid has truthful acold proven elusive.
Mr. Lavrov said that "good words" astir practice on technology, vigor and other projects had truthful acold travel to nothing, but that Moscow appreciated Trump's initiation of dialog with Moscow.
"However, nothing is happening successful existent life," Mr. Lavrov, who has served arsenic Russia's Foreign Minister since 2004, told RT India successful English, according to a transcript supplied by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Mr. Lavrov added that the dialog with Moscow that did hap was successful the aforesaid vein arsenic that nether erstwhile U.S. President Joe Biden: "Aside from this regular dialogue, which is mean successful relations betwixt radical and countries, everything other follows the signifier initiated by President Biden," Mr. Lavrov said.
"The sanctions imposed nether him person remained successful force. Moreover, the Trump medication has adopted its own initiatives successful bid to punish Russia’s economy."
