#Russia says it has received no US signal that Washington is prepared to conclude business deals with #Moscow before a settlement on #Ukraine, pushing back on a NYT report that the White House is considering exactly that. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told RIA Novosti that Moscow continues to hear the opposite sequence from Washington: first reach an agreement on Ukraine, “and everything else later.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/us/trump-putin-russia-sanctions.html