Overview
- Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said he would not rule out another meeting and that the search for a way forward continues.
- He said contacts have not been suspended and that established, sometimes discreet formats are functioning.
- The leaders last met in Alaska in August with no agreement on Ukraine, and a planned Budapest follow-up was suspended indefinitely.
- Ryabkov described the progress in establishing dialogue with the United States as "impressive."
- He said Russia has received no formal U.S. proposal for trilateral nuclear talks involving China and that Moscow will not push Beijing, while Trump has voiced interest in including China in arms reductions.