Blinken meets with Russia’s Lavrov for first time since Ukraine invasion
in a prisoner swap for Viktor Bout, the notorious international arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death.”Putin announced
in a rambling speech in February that he would suspend Moscow’s participation in the New START agreement that limits the nuclear arsenals of the two countries, and suggested that Russia would begin testing nuclear weapons. A view of the town of Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian troops, Donetsk region, Ukraine.Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine has seen some of the bloodiest fighting of the war, with both sides referring to the area as a “meat grinder.”The already tense relations between Washington and Moscow over the Ukraine invasion have gotten more complicated in recent weeks as China has made moves to strengthen its relationship with Russia.
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