.SecDef Lloyd Austin spoke with his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoygu on Friday, which marked the first time the two sides have spoken since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Top U.S. defense officials had their efforts to speak with their counterparts in Russia rebuffed until Friday's call. Austin and Shoygu last spoke on Feb. 18, less than a week before the invasion."On May 13, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke with Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu for the first time since Feb. 18.
A senior U.S. defense official described the roughly hourlong call as “professional” and said the Pentagon's takeaway “was that the message was received with respect to keeping the lines open." Kirby said earlier this month that it had been “many weeks” since the Pentagon “attempted another communication with Minister Shoygu.”
"There’ll be a gap in times of effort, and that doesn’t mean it’s not still consistent effort,” the official explained."It's not like we had a weekly timer on there. And then we were calling — you know, making an attempt every Tuesday or something like that. So both can be true that there was a period of time where we didn’t reach out, but that doesn’t mean it was for a lack of interest in doing it.”The spokesperson for Gen.
A defense official told the Washington Examiner the chairman is expected to reach out to his counterpart soon.
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