A Beginning of Dialogue? Russia's Ivanov and Germany's Ischinger Discuss the Ukraine Crisis

... quickness to brush aside the political fictions within Russia's argument is significant coming from a German leader, suggests Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Ian Brzezinski. Germany's government has "been a significant impediment to a more forceful Western response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine," he says. See the full text of remarks by Igor Ivanov and Wolfgang Ischinger. So what does this exchange mean? Neither writer suggests any concrete first step in pursuing a dialogue, although perhaps one can be inferred from Ischinger’s offering. “I was not in favor,” he writes,...