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Washington Post | Blinken to try diplomacy again with Russian counterpart after sharp U.N. clash over Ukraine
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will speak with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on Tuesday in a bid to defuse tensions over the Ukraine crisis, just hours after U.S. and Russian diplomats squared off at the United Nations in one of the most confrontational international meetings in years.
The phone call is the latest diplomatic activity aimed at averting a renewed invasion of Ukraine by more than 100,000 heavily armed troops that Moscow has massed on the country's border. Leaders from Britain, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey and Canada are in Ukraine or planning to visit in the coming days.
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