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Foreign minister says Russia must be involved in any security guarantees for Ukraine

# Russia’s Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says any security guarantees for Ukraine would have to involve Moscow and its biggest ally, China, alongside the US, UK, and France. After the recent Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin summit in Alaska, US officials said the Russian president had accepted the prospect of Western security guarantees for Ukraine. France, Britain, and Estonia have indicated they could send troops to a postwar Ukraine. Lavrov says efforts to resolve issues of collective security without Russia won’t work.