A German-Russian Foreign Ministers' Meeting, Believed to Be Their First Since 2022

Germany's and Russia's foreign ministers met Saturday, in what PBS NewsHour reports is believed to be the first such one-on-one since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Lavrov was dismissive afterward, according to the same report. Diplomacy watching is often about the fact of contact rather than its content: a dismissive word after the fact may say more about positioning than about whatever was said in the room, and a channel that had effectively been closed at this level is worth noting even when nobody emerges smiling.