Putin, Zelenskiy meeting needed once key issues agreed - Lavrov
STORY: Speaking to Serbian media outlets, Lavrov added that any meeting between Putin and Zelenskiy to exchange views on the conflict right now would be counter-productive.
"The intra-Ukrainian conflict has been ripen for so long, through all these years, that the huge number of problems has been accumulated. That is why just to meet and exchange views on what do you think, what do I think, would be now counter-productive," he said.
Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24 in what it called a 'special operation' to degrade its southern neighbour's military capabilities and root out people it called dangerous nationalists.
Ukrainian forces have mounted stiff resistance and the West has imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia in an effort to force it to withdraw its forces.
