Trump convinces Kiev to resume talks with Moscow - Russian Foreign Ministry

The substantive discussion of the Ukrainian issue between Moscow and Washington since the beginning of the year is very useful and is yielding results, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

"It is thanks to President Donald Trump's insistence that the Kiev regime agreed to our proposal to resume the Istanbul talks," Sergey Lavrov said.

The Russian FM noted that White House is "making efforts to consider the underlying causes of the crisis".