Yes. On September 26, 2026, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul met in New York on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly — the first such talks between the two countries’ top diplomats since before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Officials said they discussed bilateral relations and the war in Ukraine. Wadephul urged Russia to help restore Black Sea grain exports and to abandon what Berlin called a “dangerous path of escalation” toward Germany, Europe, and NATO. Source: Reuters.