US Warns Russia Over Ukraine as Fears of War Rise
December 2, 2021
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met his Russian counterpart as the divide between Moscow and Washington widens over Ukraine.
Blinken’s talks with Sergey Lavrov took place on Thursday on the sidelines of a summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Stockholm, where foreign ministers from the group’s 57 members discussed key regional security issues.
The high-level Russia-US meeting came after weeks of tension, with Kyiv and its Western allies voicing concern over a significant build-up of Russian troops near the frontier with Ukraine.
Moscow denies planning an invasion and accuses Ukraine of building up its own forces in the east of the country, where government forces have battled Russian-backed separatists since early 2014 following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea from Kyiv.
Story by David ChildandTamila Varshalomidze for Aljazeera
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