High-stakes talks are underway as the U.S. and its allies worry about Russia massing more than 100,000 troops along Ukraine's eastern border.
Blinken also said the U.S. was ready to address the"scope and scale" of military exercises in Europe, provided the Russians reciprocate. He said scaling down troop levels, however, was not being considered.
In remarks at the State Department on Friday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Ukraine's security would be"front and center" in all the talks. Blinken said on Friday that Russia had massed nearly 100,000 troops at Ukraine's border, with"plans to mobilize twice that number on very short order."
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