MOSCOW (Reuters) -Certain countries will make “titanic efforts” to disrupt the meeting U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin for August 15, Russia’s investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev said on Saturday.

Trump had said earlier that Russia and Ukraine were close to a ceasefire deal that could resolve the three-and-a-half-year conflict. The contents of the deal have yet to be announced, but it could require Ukraine to surrender significant territory – an outcome many European nations oppose. Dmitriev accused unnamed countries of seeking to prolong the war.

“Undoubtedly, a number of countries interested in continuing the conflict will make titanic efforts to disrupt the planned meeting between President Putin and President Trump,” he said in a pos

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