Liz Truss warns Russia of sanctions during tense Ukraine talks
2022-02-11 09:50:38 source：The Guardian
February 10, 2022
Russia’s top diplomat has described talks with the British foreign secretary, Liz Truss, as like a conversation of “the mute with the deaf”, as Truss personally warned Moscow of tough sanctions in the event of an attack on Ukraine.
During an icy press conference in Moscow that exposed the gulf between the two sides over Ukraine, Sergei Lavrov, a veteran of 18 years as foreign minister, said they had found little common ground and that the talks contained “nothing secret, no trust. Just slogans shouted from the tribunes.”
His counterpart Truss, who became foreign secretary in September, stuck closely to her prepared remarks while fielding questions from reporters, repeating warnings that a war would be “disastrous for the Russian and Ukrainian people and for European security”.
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