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As Ukraine pleads for help, NATO weighs how to counter Russia’s threatening troop deployments

By Jamie McIntyre
Published April 13, 2021 11:22am ET
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As Ukraine pleads for help, NATO weighs how to counter Russia’s threatening troop deployments
NEW URGENCY: With upward of 40,000 Russian troops continuing to mass ominously on the border with Ukraine, the Biden administration decided over the weekend to kick consultations with NATO up a notch, dispatching Secretary of State Antony Blinken to join Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to meetings scheduled with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. Also arriving in […]

NEW URGENCY: With upward of 40,000 Russian troops continuing to mass ominously on the border with Ukraine, the Biden administration decided over the weekend to kick consultations with NATO up a notch, dispatching Secretary of State Antony Blinken to join Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to meetings scheduled with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.

Also arriving in Brussels today was Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, to attend today’s meeting of the alliance’s NATO-Ukraine Commission, and who is expected to meet one-on-one with Blinken later in the day.

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