Liz Truss brushed aside Sergey Lavrov’s claim that their talks had been like those of a deaf person and a muteThe Russian foreign minister publicly taunted Liz Truss as “unprepared” yesterday, likening their face-to-face meeting on the Ukraine crisis to talking to a deaf person. In a sign that the foreign secretary’s mission was proving less than fruitful, Sergey Lavrov said he was disappointed “that what we have is a conversation of a mute and a deaf person”. SponsoredTruss, 46, the first foreign secretary to visit Moscow in four years, met Lavrov to deliver an uncompromising message that Russia should withdraw all its forces from the Ukrainian border immediately to prove its professed peaceful intentions. Lavrov accused Truss of being unprepared for their talks GETTY IMAGESAlthough Lavrov, 71, had told her that Russia had no intention of invading Ukraine, she said: “I can’t see any other reasons for having 100,000 troops stationed on the border,

Source: The Times February 11, 2022 01:36 UTC