“Il presidente Putin ha dichiarato molte volte che, nonostante tutto ciò che è accaduto negli ultimi sei anni di presidenza Zelensky, è ancora pronto a incontrarlo. Lo ha ribadito dopo che Zelensky ha chiesto un incontro diretto, precisando che, se desidera incontrarlo, può venire a Mosca”. Lo ha dichiarato il ministro degli Esteri russo Sergei Lavrov parlando alla stampa ad Atlanta a margine del G20, citato da Interfax.
Lavrov ha assicurato che, in caso di visita di Zelensky nella capitale russa, Mosca “garantirà la sua sicurezza, che non può essere garantita a Kiev”. Il capo della diplomazia russa ha inoltre sottolineato che chi chiede un incontro deve accettare le condizioni poste dall’interlocutore al quale si rivolge, definendola “una prassi normale nella diplomazia e nella vita reale”.
L'articolo Ucraina, Lavrov apre a Zelensky: “Putin sempre disponibile a incontrarlo a Mosca” proviene da Affaritaliani.it.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged fellow G20 foreign ministers on Friday to work together for greater geopolitical stability and economic prosperity, warning that a series of crises posed serious threats to the global economic order.
But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s participation in the two-day gathering in Atlanta – at Rubio’s invitation – has roiled many G20 ministers, aggravating deep rifts over the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East during a meeting that is expected to end without a joint declaration. Such statements require consensus that has been elusive if not impossible since Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband addressed Lavrov directly during the meeting, telling him: “Only yesterday your drones attacked and killed 15 people. And there are countless examples like this of you killing innocent civilians throughout this war. We all know you are the aggressor.”
Lavrov later told reporters that Moscow’s position on the Ukraine conflict was unchanged, and Russia could not accept Ukraine as a “military threat to the lawful security interests of the Russian Federation,” according to Russian news agencies.
US officials said they skipped a traditional G20 family photo after European officials refused to be photographed with Lavrov. One US official said Washington wanted to avoid a “spectacle” that could overshadow the meeting. A third of members objected, including Australia and Canada, a Western diplomat said.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told reporters a photograph with Lavrov was unacceptable because “there is no normalcy with Russia.” Lavrov himself acknowledged that there had been “concerns” about the family photo, drawing head nods from many in the room, one participant said.
Rubio, saying the world faced interconnected crises that threatened global energy and food supply, trade and the freedom of navigation, urged his counterparts to find areas of agreement during the final ministerial meeting before a leaders summit in Miami, Florida, from December 14 to 16.
“We are tasked, on behalf of the nations that we serve, to work together … to coordinate responses to emerging crises and to protect our shared interests,” he said. “We can help set the context for expanded geopolitical stability and the broader economic prosperity agenda that our leaders will tackle.”
Two Western officials said G20 members were in broad agreement about the severity of the economic challenges facing nearly every country as a result of the war in the Middle East. Many participants worried that renewed US strikes on Iran would send oil prices sharply higher, deepening the pain, they said.
“The possibility for a new military operation in Iran is on everybody’s mind,” said one of the officials, who spoken on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. “Everybody is under deep pressure.”
The foreign ministers’ meeting was expected to end with a chair’s statement, with the bigger effort focused on hammering out a joint declaration that could be signed by G20 leaders at their summit in December, Western officials said. It remains unclear if Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the December gathering.
With G20 members Russia, China and middle powers such as Brazil and India trying to navigate US-China strategic competition, you have “much more of a split than we’ve ever had,” said Heidi Crebo-Rediker, who was chief economist at the State Department during the Obama administration.
Over the past decade or so, G7 countries would at least “have agreed a coordinated platform before they came to the G20, but now we don’t even really have that,” she added.
Ministers are expected to discuss supply chain issues and challenges in procuring the critical minerals needed to produce advanced technologies during their discussion on Saturday.
Rubio has championed the Pax Silica initiative, aimed at uniting G20 countries concerned about China’s dominance in rare earths and other critical minerals.
But any movement on that front will probably come afterwards, experts said, pointing to a US-led statement on excess industrial capacity that some G20 trade ministers signed after the group failed to reach consensus.
Elaine Dezenski of the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies said such statements by ad hoc groups could offer a way forward in the current difficult environment.
“The right test is whether the US can build cooperation with partners when all-member consensus appears to be out of reach,” she said. She noted the Quad — a security grouping of the US, India, Japan and Australia — would also meet in Atlanta on Saturday, on the sidelines of the G20 gathering.
US President Donald Trump’s recent decisions on Russia, including a deal to buy diesel and waiving some sanctions, formed a challenging backdrop for the talks, along with Ukraine’s problems with its Starshield satellite services, participants said. Ukraine was not invited to attend.
Washington announced a multibillion-dollar sale of Patriot interceptors late on Friday, offering some good news to Kyiv.
Before the meeting, European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said she would call for increased support for Ukraine, while pushing for progress on accountability measures through the Special Tribunal and Claims Commission.
“Russia must be accountable,” she wrote on X.
Sergei Lavrov’s arrival in the United States for the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting is unlikely to transform the prospects for peace in Ukraine. For Moscow, however, the visit offers opportunities extending well beyond the formal agenda.
Russia’s veteran foreign minister will participate in discussions alongside representatives of the world’s major economies, including governments that have imposed extensive sanctions on Moscow and others that have maintained profitable commercial relationships with it.
The meeting, chaired by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on 30–31 October, takes place as Washington pursues another diplomatic initiative concerning Ukraine.
Lavrov’s presence has attracted criticism from American lawmakers, including Republican Congressman Don Bacon, who has questioned why a senior representative of a government conducting military operations against Ukrainian cities should be welcomed in the United States.
Yet the more consequential issue is not whether Lavrov should attend. It is what Moscow hopes to achieve through renewed access to Western diplomatic forums, and what the United States expects to obtain in return.
The Kremlin has spent much of the war arguing that Western attempts to isolate Russia have failed.
There is some substance to that argument, although it requires qualification.
Russia has suffered extensive restrictions on access to Western finance, technology and markets. Its economic relationships with Europe have been severely reduced, and its dependence on alternative trading partners has increased.
Nevertheless, Moscow has preserved important commercial and diplomatic connections with China, India and other countries unwilling to participate fully in Western sanctions.
For these governments, relations with Russia are often determined by energy requirements, commercial opportunities and their own strategic calculations rather than European security priorities.
The G20 provides Moscow with an opportunity to exploit those differences.
Lavrov can challenge Western sanctions, defend Russia’s diplomatic positions and hold bilateral discussions without demonstrating any willingness to compromise over occupied Ukrainian territory.
That does not make the meeting a Russian victory. Attendance at a multilateral gathering is not equivalent to the removal of sanctions or recognition of territorial claims.
But it offers Moscow something useful: opportunities for engagement without the conditions that would normally accompany substantive negotiations.
The limitations of such diplomacy were illustrated recently when German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul met Lavrov in New York.
As EU Today examined in its analysis of that encounter, the meeting reopened a channel of communication but produced no visible movement in Russia’s position.
Germany restated its support for Ukraine. Moscow reiterated its established arguments.
The encounter demonstrated that diplomatic access and diplomatic progress are not necessarily the same thing.
The Trump administration approaches Russia from a different perspective.
Washington appears increasingly interested in identifying economic and political incentives that could make a negotiated settlement possible.
The calculation is understandable. Sanctions alone have not ended the war, and continued fighting imposes enormous costs on Ukraine while consuming Western military resources.
However, negotiations depend on more than establishing contact.
A settlement requires agreement over territory, security arrangements, enforcement mechanisms and the consequences of renewed hostilities.
Russia’s willingness to participate in discussions does not establish its willingness to accept terms compatible with Ukrainian sovereignty.
Nor does the prospect of economic cooperation necessarily create sufficient leverage to change Moscow’s calculations.
The administration must also consider how concessions offered to Russia would affect Ukraine’s ability to negotiate.
If Moscow expects economic benefits merely for remaining at the negotiating table, it has an incentive to prolong discussions while preserving its military position.
Conversely, a credible offer tied to verifiable Russian actions could provide a basis for substantive bargaining.
The difference lies in the conditions attached to any concessions and the mechanisms available to enforce them.
For European governments, the Atlanta meeting exposes a familiar weakness.
The EU is a major provider of financial assistance to Ukraine, maintains extensive sanctions against Russia and would face the consequences of any settlement that failed to establish lasting security arrangements.
Yet European influence over direct American-Russian negotiations remains limited.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas is attending the meeting and will conduct bilateral discussions, according to the European External Action Service’s official announcement.
Her participation gives Brussels an opportunity to communicate its position. It does not guarantee a role in determining the terms of any eventual agreement.
Ukraine itself is not participating in the gathering, although the G20 meeting is not formally a peace negotiation.
The danger for Europe is not simply exclusion from particular meetings. It is the possibility that decisions affecting European security will emerge from negotiations in which European governments possess limited influence over the agenda.
The EU retains important instruments of leverage, particularly sanctions, financial assistance and access to its markets.
But those instruments are less effective when member states disagree over their use or when Washington pursues a separate diplomatic strategy.
The meeting also takes place amid serious tensions over Iran, maritime security and international trade.
Washington wants greater cooperation over freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, Red Sea, Black Sea and South China Sea.
These priorities intersect with European interests, particularly energy security and the protection of commercial shipping.
Yet the participating governments approach these disputes from markedly different positions.
China has little interest in endorsing an American interpretation of maritime security that could constrain its own regional ambitions.
Russia is unlikely to support arrangements that weaken its position in the Black Sea.
Meanwhile, disagreements over American tariffs complicate Washington’s efforts to secure cooperation from traditional economic partners.
The G20 remains useful precisely because governments with conflicting interests can communicate through it.
But communication should not be mistaken for agreement.
For Moscow, Lavrov’s visit offers another opportunity to demonstrate that Russia remains engaged in international diplomacy despite its war against Ukraine.
For Washington, the challenge is to show that renewed engagement can produce something more substantial than another meeting.
Europe’s concern is more immediate: any settlement negotiated with Moscow will have to be sustainable on European territory, with European resources and against the possibility of renewed Russian aggression.
Diplomatic access may be relatively easy to restore. Establishing credible security arrangements will be considerably harder.
Moscú, 30 oct (Prensa Latina) El ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Rusia, Serguéi Lavrov, arribó hoy a la ciudad de Atlanta, en Estados Unidos, para participar en la reunión ministerial del G20, informó la cancillería del país eslavo.
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Russia's sanctioned Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is heading to a G20 meeting in the US, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated. Moscow plans to use the trip to argue against sanctions, days after Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv. Ukraine, meanwhile, is still waiting for Washington's sign-off on the air defense missiles it needs.
Ukraine is fighting Russia's air war while its main ally squeezes it too, from capped Starlink links to missing US warnings of incoming ballistic missiles, leaving Kyiv weaker before any talks. A new round of the US-Russia-Ukraine trilateral talks is expected in Abu Dhabi in November.
Lavrov will lead the Russian delegation at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting, which the US hosts in Atlanta on 30–31 October. In his speeches, he will denounce “the use of economic ‘weapons’ to fight opponents, including sanctions,” Russia's Foreign Ministry stated. The US Treasury sanctioned Lavrov on 25 February 2022, the day after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The ministry claimed its delegation ran into American red tape over visas. Journalists in Lavrov's press pool still received US visas without movement restrictions, Russian state news agency TASS reported.
The State Department's announcement of the meeting doesn't mention Russia or say whether Lavrov got a sanctions waiver. Republican Congressman Don Bacon told RFE/RL that Russian leaders “should not be welcomed in any of these forums.” “They lead a pariah state,” he said.
Lavrov will also stress “the cornerstone importance of indivisible security” as the basis of multipolarity, the ministry stated. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ruled out neutrality and limits on Ukraine's army.
A day before the trip was announced, Lavrov called the US-Russia diesel deal a purely business arrangement. “There were no strings attached,” he claimed.
Lavrov brings these demands days after Russian ballistic missiles hit a Kyiv university campus and the Southern Bridge, killing a 46-year-old woman, the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office reported. Kyiv has waited almost a month for US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's signature on Patriot and NASAMS missiles, Zelenskyy wrote.
The visit adds to a run of US moves in Moscow's favor. This month, the US Treasury cleared Russian diesel blocked by sanctions. US President Donald Trump then waived tariffs on buyers of Russian oil. US Energy Secretary Chris Wright also said investors could buy sanctioned shadow-fleet tankers and return them to legal trade. Russia, for its part, kept striking Ukraine's energy sites during the truce Trump announced.
Russian officials are also back in G20 rooms in person. In late August, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov attended a G20 finance meeting in Asheville, North Carolina. It was his first in-person G20 appearance since 2022, and European officials refused to join the group photo with him. The State Department has stated that Russia is welcome at all G20 meetings, and a senior US official said Russia would be invited to the leaders' summit in Miami in December.
Western ministers used to push back at those tables. When Lavrov spoke at the G20 meeting in Johannesburg in February 2025, then-British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he saw no appetite for peace.
Former US President Barack Obama campaigned in Atlanta on 28 October, two days before Lavrov's meeting there.
“And while we're alienating key allies like Canada, the White House is bending the knee to Vladimir Putin of Russia and selling out Ukrainians who are fighting for their freedom and democracy,” Obama said.
He also likened Trump's self-enrichment in office to “what dictators in other countries do.”
Moscú, 29 oct (Prensa Latina) El ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Rusia, Serguéi Lavrov, asistirá a la reunión de cancilleres del G20 que se celebrará en Atlanta (EE.UU.) los días 30 y 31 de octubre, informó hoy la portavoz de la Cancillería, María Zajárova.
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La anunciada reanudación de las conversaciones entre Rusia, Ucrania y EE UU para finalizar la guerra iniciada por Vladímir Putin podría alimentar unas esperanzas de paz hoy por hoy ilusorias. El presidente ruso, que envió sus tropas a la conquista del país vecino el 24 de febrero de 2022, ha reiterado recientemente que desea el fin de las hostilidades bélicas en Ucrania, pero su idea de “paz” consiste hasta ahora en satisfacer unas exigencias inalterables, incompatibles con el futuro de Ucrania como estado independiente y amenazadoras para la seguridad de sus vecinos occidentales europeos.
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Donald Trump si mostra ottimista con i giornalisti, sui negoziati tra Kiev e Mosca. “Stiamo facendo molti progressi con Russia e Ucraina” e “molto presto verrà organizzato un incontro” fra Vladimir Putin e Volodymyr Zelensky, ha dichiarato il presidente degli Stati Uniti. Sul tavolo dei colloqui tra Casa Bianca e Cremlino, c’è il possibile ritorno delle aziende americane sul mercato petrolifero russo. Secondo quanto rivelato ieri dal Financial Times, potrebbe essere riavviata una joint venture tra i colossi petroliferi americani e russi al largo delle coste di Sakhalin, una volta terminato il conflitto. Stando alla testata, le due potenze hanno discusso anche di un coinvolgimento delle grandi compagnie americane in un piano per riprendere le forniture di petrolio russo verso l’Europa, attraverso l’oleodotto Druzhba.
Intanto, proseguono gli attacchi. L’esercito ucraino avrebbe lanciato nella notte attacchi contro diverse strutture in Russia collegate al complesso militare-industriale di Mosca, secondo quanto riportato dai canali di informazione russi su Telegram. Esplosioni e incendi hanno imperversato nella città di Lipetsk nella tarda serata di ieri, stando al canale di monitoraggio ucraino Exilenova Plus: un incendio sarebbe scoppiato nell’area dell’impianto metallurgico di Novolipetsk dopo l’attivazione delle difese aeree.
Il ministro degli esteri russo Sergei Lavrov, appena 24 ore fa, ha sottolineato l’apertura statunitense al dialogo con Mosca, sottolineando la chiusura dell’Europa: “”Gli Usa sostengono apertamente lo sviluppo e l’approfondimento di questo dialogo, in più settori possibile. L’Europa invece rifiuta categoricamente di impegnarsi in contati con Mosca”, ha dichiarato il capo della diplomazia ai direttori di media di Paesi africani. Anche se gli Stati Uniti sostengono l’Ucraina con i dati satellitari e fornendo armi agli europei, “sono aperti a un dialogo con la Russia”, ha aggiunto Lavrov.
L'articolo Trump: “Presto un incontro tra Putin e Zelensky, molti progressi con Russia e Ucraina”. Sul tavolo il petrolio russo proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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