US, Russia to hold talks on Ukraine

BSS :
US diplomatic chief Antony Blinken will meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Stockholm on Thursday amid renewed military tensions on the border between Russia and Ukraine, a United States official said Wednesday.
The US Secretary of State will hold talks with Lavrov on the sidelines of a meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) after meeting Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba.
Blinken was in the Latvian capital Riga on Wednesday where a meeting of NATO foreign ministers focused largely on tensions over Russia’s military build-up along Ukraine’s border.
Also in Riga on Wednesday, Ukraine’s Kuleba called on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for a “deterrence package” to stop Russia launching an invasion of his country.