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Julian Borger in Washington and Patrick Wintour diplomatic editor

US and Russia to hold talks on Ukraine in potential sign ‘diplomacy is not dead’

Russian servicemen in joint drills in Belarus.
Russian service personnel on joint drills in Belarus. Photograph: MiMinistry of Defece Republic of/AFP/Getty Images

The US and Russian foreign ministers will hold talks in Geneva on Friday in a development that a US official said suggested that “perhaps diplomacy is not dead” in the efforts to fend off a new Russian attack on Ukraine.

With the White House warning that such an attack could come “at any time”, the US secretary of state, Tony Blinken, will fly to Kyiv on Wednesday and Berlin on Thursday to consult with the Ukrainian government and European allies before the meeting the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. It comes as Nato also offered Russia a fresh round of talks.

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