Vladimir Putin’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has reportedly fallen out of favour with the Russian president following a ‘disastrous’ call with the US.

The veteran foreign minister Lavrov spoke on the phone with his US counterpart, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in late October to iron out details of the planned meeting between Donald Trump and Putin in Budapest.

However, the call was described as ‘disastrous’ by the Moscow Times, an allegation the Kremlin has denied.

And a day later, Washington cancelled the summit in Hungary and imposed fresh sanctions on Russia, suggesting that the call may not have gone as planned.

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