Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with his Kremlin counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in a bid to prevent a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his Russian counterpart that the Kremlin could defuse concerns about an invasion by moving troops away from Ukraine's borders.
"If Russia wants to begin to convince the world that it has no aggressive intent toward Ukraine, a very good place to start would be by de-escalating by bringing back and removing these forces from Ukraine's borders," Blinken said. The meeting between Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov came as Western officials, including President Joe Biden, have said they expect Moscow to launch an incursion into Ukraine. U.S. intelligence has indicatedThe U.S. is not convinced of Russia's claim that it is not preparing for an invasion of its ex-Soviet neighbor, Blinken said.
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