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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he has cancelled a planned meeting with Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov later this week, as Russia has started an invasion of Ukraine. "Now that we see the invasion is beginning and Russia has made clear its wholesale rejection of diplomacy, it does not make sense to go forward with that meeting at this time," Blinken says in a press conference with Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba at the State Department. SOUNDBITE
"Earlier today, I sent a letter to Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov proposing that we meet next week in Europe following on our talks in recent weeks to discuss the steps that we can take to resolve this crisis without conflict," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says while speaking at a UN Security Council meeting. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden is ready to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin if the US and Russia "conclude that (that is) the best way to resolve things" regarding Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken says after talks with his own Russian counterpart. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he asked Russia to prove its intentions by pulling back troops deployed on Ukraine's borders. SOUNDBITE
After a meeting between the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, as part of talks concerning Ukraine, Antony Blinken says that "the discussions" with Lavrov were "frank and substantive". SOUNDBITE
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