Bangladesh, Aug. 21 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has outlined the conditions under which a long-anticipated meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky might take place, stressing that substantive groundwork must be completed before any such high-level talks are considered. His comments, made on August 21, come as Washington attempts to revive direct dialogue between Moscow and Kiev, with US President Donald Trump pushing for trilateral diplomacy.

In recent days, international diplomacy surrounding the war in Ukraine has accelerated. Following Zelenskys visit to Washington earlier this week, Trump publicly proposed that the Ukrainian leader and Putin first meet face-to-face bef...