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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Simon Lewis and Susan Heavey

'We want peace': Blinken to meet Russian, Ukrainian officials, U.S. says

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares (not pictured) at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, U.S., January 18, 2022. Nicholas Kamm/Pool via REUTERS

U.S. President Joe Biden's top diplomat will seek to defuse a crisis with Moscow over Ukraine when he meets the Russian foreign minister in Geneva this week following visits with Ukrainian leaders in Kyiv and European officials in Berlin.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel amid concerns voiced by Ukraine and its Western allies over the tens of thousands of Russian troops amassed in and near Ukraine.

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