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Leaders meet around the globe hoping to calm Ukraine crisis
Updated On: 08 February, 2022 09:03 AM IST | Moscow | Agencies
Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, described Macron’s visit as “very important,” but sought to temper expectations, telling reporters that “the situation is too complex to expect a decisive breakthrough after just one meeting
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French President Emmanuel Macron, (right), welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin in Bormes-les-Mimosas, France in 2019. Pic/AP
International efforts to defuse the standoff over Ukraine intensified Monday, with French President Emmanuel Macron set to hold talks in Moscow and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington to coordinate policies as fears of a Russian invasion mount.
The concentration of an estimated 1,00,000 Russian troops near Ukraine has fueled Western worries that it heralds a possible offensive. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan warned Sunday that Russia could invade Ukraine “any day,” triggering a conflict that would come at an “enormous human cost.”
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