(Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held calls on Saturday with his Turkish and Hungarian counterparts, the Russian foreign ministry said, hours after a summit between the U.S. and Russian presidents yielded no deal on ending the war in Ukraine.
President Donald Trump, who hosted President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday for bilateral talks aimed at ending the war that Russia launched with a full-scale invasion on Ukraine in early 2022, said that Kyiv should make a deal with Moscow because “Russia is a very big power, and they’re not.”
The phone call between Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan took place at Turkey’s initiative, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement on its website.
“The foreign ministers exchanged views on the outcomes of the high-