The French foreign and defense ministers have begun “frank” talks with their Russian counterparts in Moscow as Paris pushes for a detente with Russia.
Jean-Yves Le Drian and Florence Parly of France and Russia’s Sergei Lavrov and Sergei Shoigu on September 9 held the first meeting in the so-called “2+2” format that was suspended after Russia seized Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014.
