Russian President Vladimir Putin has ruled out negotiations with Kiev in light of Ukraine’s counteroffensive on Russian soil, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. “The president said it very clearly that following attacks,or even incursion, on the Kursk region, any talks areimpossible,” Lavrov said on Russian state television on the sidelines of Putin’s visit to Azerbaijan. Lavrov also said that Putin would soon give an assessment of the situation. Reports of contacts between the warring parties, which had been established by intermediaries such as Qatar or Turkey, were nothi…