Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has cautioned that his country should hold veto power over any military assistance provided to Ukraine if and when a peace agreement is reached, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

The summit this past weekend in Alaska between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin ended without any concrete pathway to peace. Trump is seeking a formal meeting that includes Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in which the topic of recognizing Russian land acquisition and a ceasefire contingent on Western military assistance would be discussed.

Lavrov dismissed the likelihood of any such meeting and suggested that Putin accepted merely to “raise the level of its representation at talks with Ukraine.”

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