{"id":26395,"date":"2022-06-24T13:58:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T13:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/overheard-russian-ambassador-talks-ukraine-war-and-jewish-guys-at-cafe-milano"},"modified":"2022-06-24T13:58:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T13:58:20","slug":"overheard-russian-ambassador-talks-ukraine-war-and-jewish-guys-at-cafe-milano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/overheard-russian-ambassador-talks-ukraine-war-and-jewish-guys-at-cafe-milano","title":{"rendered":"Overheard: Russian ambassador talks Ukraine war and &#8216;Jewish guys&#8217; at Cafe Milano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Left-right: Former U.S. envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, Russian ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov and Dimitri Simes. | Daniel Lippman\/POLITICO Though he has been called &#8220;Washington&#8217;s least popular man&#8221; in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Antonov had a big-name dining companion for lunch Thursday at Cafe Milano in Georgetown: former U.S. envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad. The two were hosted by Dimitri Simes, president and CEO of the Center for the National Interest. A POLITICO reporter was at a neighboring table, overheard much of the conversation, and took notes on what was said. The Russian ambassador agreed when Khalilzad said &#8220;we need an agreement&#8221; to end the war between Ukraine and Russia. When discussing the prospect of a peace deal, Antonov asked Khalilzad, &#8220;What would [the U.S.] like us to give up?&#8221; Khalilzad suggested that Antonov have dinner with the Ukrainian ambassador. In an apparent reference to Russia&#8217;s false claims that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former U.S. envoy for Afghanistan had lunch with the Russian ambassador at the swanky Washington restaurant. A POLITICO reporter sat close by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-26395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}