Russia Rejects Talks with Ukraine’s President

“Russia on Friday rejected talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and made it clear that it was seeking to topple his democratically elected government,” the New York Times reports.

Said Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: “What we’re talking about is preventing Nazis and those who push methods of genocide to rule in this country. Right now, the regime that is located in Kyiv is under two mechanisms of external control: first, the West, led by the United States, and secondly, neo-Nazis.”