The Kremlin says that nearly all the communication channels between Moscow and Washington were frozen.
“Practically all levels of dialogue with the United States are frozen,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov tells Mir TV, according to state news agency RIA Novosti. “We don’t communicate with one another. Or we do so minimally.”
Russia finds itself locked in its worst standoff with the West since the Cold War over its 2014 annexation of Crimea, the conflict in Ukraine and lingering disagreement about the conflict in Syria.
US State Department spokesman John Kirby assures later that “diplomatic engagement with Russia continues across a wide range of issues.”
“That we have significant differences with Moscow on some of these issues is well known, but there hasn’t been a break in dialogue,” Kirby says, adding that Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov had spoken on the phone about the situation in Syria Tuesday.
— AFP
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