Secret US-Russia talks over Ukraine ‘not sanctioned by Biden administration’
by Dan Sabbagh and David Smith in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6CS1K)
Washington denies authorising former officials' meeting with Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov
Joe Biden's administration did not sanction or support secret meetings that former top US national security officials held with the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and other Russians on potential talks to end the Ukraine war, the White House and state department have said.
America's NBC News network reported that the former officials met Lavrov in New York in April, joined by Richard Haass, a former US diplomat and outgoing president of the Council on Foreign Relations thinktank in Washington, and two former White House aides, Charles Kupchan and Thomas Graham.
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