“For years we have been hearing about the alleged open door, but we have also heard now that we cannot enter,” says Ukraine’s Zelensky Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said there is “some hope for reaching a compromise” in talks to end Moscow’s war on Ukraine, adding that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had recently made some “interesting statements.” Lavrov’s comments, made in an hourlong interview with Russia’s RBC TV channel on Wednesday morning, came after Zelensky conceded his country would not be allowed into NATO, before saying his aides had indicated the positions in peace talks between Ukrainian and Russian…


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