Alaska meeting, Ukraine conflict and trade with Russia: Key takeaways from Trump\u2019s Q&A<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\nRyabkov added that \u201cit is clear that the leaders will focus on other topics,\u201d<\/em> referring to the Ukraine conflict. On Monday, Trump said the summit \u2013 which he described as a \u201cfeel-out meeting\u201d<\/em> \u2013 would explore a potential deal involving the swapping of territory between Russia and Ukraine as part of a settlement.<\/p>\nHowever, the official acknowledged that \u201cat this stage, there is no observable progress regarding the return of Russian diplomatic property in the US.\u201d<\/em> He was referring to several compounds, including Russia\u2019s San Francisco consulate, which were closed by US authorities in 2016\u20132017.<\/p>\nAt the time, Washington said the closures, as well as expulsions of dozens of Russian diplomats, were in response to alleged election interference. Recent files declassified by US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard have substantially undermined that claim.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Moscow has accused the US of the \u201cexpropriation\u201d<\/em> of property protected by diplomatic immunity.<\/p>\nFollowing Trump\u2019s inauguration in January, Moscow appointed Aleksandr Darchiev as its new ambassador to Washington. In June, he met with the US President, telling him that he would \u201cdo everything to restore Russian-American relations and bring them back to normality and common sense.\u201d<\/em> He added that Russia and the US are \u201cdestined\u2026 to have [a] non-confrontational peaceful existence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Alaska meeting could boost efforts to restore ties with the US, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has said Russia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}