💢 Russia says it has received no US signal that Washington is prepared to conclude business deals with Moscow before a settlement on Ukraine, pushing back on a NYT report that the White House is considering exactly that.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told RIA Novosti that Moscow continues to hear the opposite sequence from Washington: first reach an agreement on Ukraine, “and everything else later.” He said the same applies to economic projects.

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