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Blinken to meet Russian, Ukrainian counterparts amid tensions
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the US State Department in Washington, DC, on November 22, 2021. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet separately with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts tomorrow on the margins of a meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, at a time of tension over Russian military deployments on Ukraine’s borders.
A State Department official confirms the meetings, which will happen on the sidelines of a minister-level meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Blinken is to meet first with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and later with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Tensions over the Russian troop build-up along the border of Ukraine, whose government is seeking to align with NATO and the West, have been a focus of Blinken’s weeklong Europe trip.
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