Sandego.net – Russia’s and Germany’s foreign ministers held a face-to-face meeting during the United Nations General Assembly, reopening a direct channel that had been dormant since before Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, met with his German counterpart Johann Wadephul on Saturday. The conversation covered the strained relationship between Moscow and Berlin as well as the continuing war in Ukraine. It marked the first publicly disclosed ministerial-level talks between the two countries since the invasion transformed European security and sharply damaged bilateral ties.…