Putin's IBS<p>"<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> is just stalling for time": <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Lithuanian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lithuanian</span></a> Foreign Minister on talks in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Turkey</span></a></p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> delegation arrived in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Istanbul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Istanbul</span></a> not to reach an agreement but to stall for time, believes <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Lithuanian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lithuanian</span></a> Foreign Minister <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/K%C4%99stutis_Budrys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kęstutis_Budrys</span></a>.</p><p> "Neither the mandate they came with was clear, nor was there a clear schedule for how everything would continue," he said on the air of radio station <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Zini%C5%B3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zinių</span></a> radijas.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Budrys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Budrys</span></a> stressed that the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/West" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>West</span></a> can no longer allow <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> to "deceive itself."</p>