Sergey Lavrov met with his German counterpart in New York for the first time since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and German counterpart Johann Wadephul held a bilateral meeting in New York during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. This diplomatic encounter marks the first direct meeting between the chief diplomats of Russia and Germany since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an ongoing conflict that sources note has lasted for four and a half years.

The meeting took place on September 26 in New York. While specific details regarding the agenda and outcome of the talks were not elaborated in the provided excerpts, the historical nature of the resumption of high-level diplomatic contact between Moscow and Berlin was the primary focus of both reports.