Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated on 23 May that Russia will present Ukraine with a draft "settlement document" as soon as the prisoner exchange is completed. Source: Kremlin-aligned Russian news agency TASS,

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov cast doubt on Friday over the Vatican as a potential location for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, saying that the Holy See itself would find it uncomfortable to host two mainly Orthodox Christian nations.

Russia will be ready to present its list of ceasefire conditions to Ukraine immediately after the ongoing prisoner exchange between the two countries is completed, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has announced,

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that the Russian side is at an "advanced stage" in its work on a memorandum to end hostilities in Ukraine. Source: Russian Interfax news agency, quoting Lavrov;

A Kremlin spokesman says Russia and Ukraine have no scheduled direct peace talks. The statement Thursday came nearly a week after their first face-to-face meeting since the early weeks of Moscow's invasion in 2022 and days after U.

There is a panic in the UN Secretariat due to the upcoming large staff reductions in the organization. This was stated by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin, speaking at the XXIII International Likhachev Scientific Readings.

Russia and Ukraine began a major prisoner exchange Friday, swapping hundreds of soldiers and civilians in the first phase of an exchange that was a moment of cooperation in otherwise failed

The Russian Justice Ministry has added DW's Alexander Smirnov to a list of people it deems to be "foreign agents."