Lavrov's Leaks: Moscow Embarrasses Berlin and Paris in Negotiations Over Ukraine (Part Two)
*To read Part One, please click here. While Kyiv, Berlin and Paris pursue (with varying degrees of intensity, frantically in Kyiv’s case) a high-level “Normandy” meeting as a goal for its own sake, without conditions or a clear agenda, Moscow is setting maximalist conditions for holding such a meeting, and pursues a predetermined agenda and outcome in equally maximalist terms …
Source: jamestown.org