# Putin’s foreign minister blames US for extra year of war in Ukraine, says Russia could have been at peace

https://mins.news/en/item/59075

- The Kyiv Independent, 2026-09-15 10:16 UTC
- World
- Original: https://kyivindependent.com/putins-foreign-minister-blames-us-for-extra-year-of-war-in-ukraine/

> Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the U.S. of prolonging the war against Ukraine by a year by withdrawing from what Moscow calls the “Anchorage agreements” between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. U.S. officials deny such agreements existed. Lavrov said Russia remains open to resuming trilateral talks with the U.S. and Ukraine.

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