Why this score Russian Foreign Minister; the principal public voice of Kremlin foreign-policy messaging, with a long record of statements later contradicted by the documentary record or by counterparties to the same meetings.
We are not refusing to talk to them, and if they come, they know that President Putin is ready to receive them again. The question is, what will they bring?
True — the test arrived. Witkoff and Kushner went to Moscow on 5 September and Putin received them at the Kremlin for three hours and ten minutes. Lavrov's own question, what they would bring, was answered by his side's terms not moving.
Russia's Anchorage proposals failed, and peace will come only through new concepts and ideas the United States is willing to support — there is no agreement with Russia to end the war.
Mixed. The State Department transcript confirms Rubio said the Anchorage “proposals — they call it 3+2 — failed” and that no agreement to end the war exists. Russia's foreign ministry said the same day that Lavrov had reaffirmed commitment to those proposals; both describe one meeting and cannot both hold, and no agreement text was ever published. Mixed rather than true because “willing to support” is a political position, not a checkable fact.