German, French and British ambassadors arrive in Moscow and meet a Russian deputy foreign minister amid ongoing debate over Ukraine. On June 11, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (Germany), Nigel Casey (United Kingdom) and Nicolas de Rivière (France) come to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and are received by Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, according to a statement published on the ministry’s website.
The reports state that the diplomats’ arrivals follow a request for talks with one of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s deputies. The diplomats’ vehicles enter the ministry’s headquarters area on Smolenskaya Square in central Moscow. The Russian foreign ministry statement says Galuzin presents the ambassadors with Russia’s assessment of what it describes as “destructive” policies by the ambassadors’ governments related to the Ukrainian crisis, characterizing those policies as encouraging Kyiv to continue the war against Russia.
The outlets do not provide further details about any other specific topics discussed or responses from the three ambassadors, beyond the presentation of Russia’s views.
