US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has arrived in the Black Sea resort of Sochi for rare talks with Russian leaders.
Pompeo landed in Sochi on Tuesday, where he is expected to sit down for talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before meeting with President Vladimir Putin.
Pompeo and the Russians are expected to discuss arms control, Iran and Syria as well as issues related to increasingly tense US-Russian relations.
The secretary of state earlier scrapped the Moscow leg of his trip to stop by Brussels where he had talks with European leaders about the mounting tensions with Iran.
(Source: AP)