Ambassadors from the UK, France and Germany have attended a meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday as Europe pushes for fresh peace talks.
The ministry shared a video of the three diplomats arriving at the building in central Moscow to attend a meeting with Sergei Lavrov’s deputy. The foreign minister said on Wednesday Russia was open to hear what Europe had to say, according to reports.
The leaders of France, Germany and Britain – who head an informal security alliance called the E3 that is one of Ukraine’s main sources of international support – met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in London last Sunday, where they said they supported his call for a ceasefire.
At the meeting in Downing Street, the four agreed that the current line of contact between Russian and Ukrainian forces should be the starting point for talks; that Ukraine should have legally binding security guarantees, including the deployment of a multinational force; and that frozen Russian financial assets would remain immobilised until Russia had compensated Ukraine for the damage caused by the war.
Talks between the E3 ambassadors and Russia’s senior diplomat come months after British and French diplomats were summoned to the Foreign Ministry after cruise missiles produced by MBDA were used in a Ukrainian strike on Bryansk.
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