FILE PHOTO: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a session at Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Antalya, Turkey, April 12, 2025. REUTERS/Kaan Soyturk/File Photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Sunday contacts with U.S. President Donald Trump's team were moving ahead very well but that it was too early to expect instant results due to the level of damage done to relations under Trump's predecessor Joe Biden.
Trump, who says he wants to be remembered as a peacemaker, has repeatedly said he wants to end the "bloodbath" of the three-year war in Ukraine - which his administration now casts as a proxy conflict between the United States and Russia, echoing Moscow's stance.
