Moscow has claimed that momentum in a push for peace in Ukraine supposedly generated by a US-Russia summit in Alaska in August has now been squandered, mostly because of European leaders, who it accused of wanting to prolong the war.
“Unfortunately, we have to state that the powerful impetus generated by Anchorage in favour of agreements has been largely exhausted due to the efforts ... of supporters of war ... primarily among Europeans,” Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday.
US president Donald Trump failed to achieve a breakthrough in Alaska in his b
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