Russia rebuffs Mike Pompeo’s call for Putin-Ukraine talks

Published November 27, 2018 6:31pm ET



Russian President Vladimir Putin will not meet with Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko, a Kremlin official said in dismissal of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s call for direct diplomacy in the wake of a naval skirmish.

“There is no more need to calm the situation,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday, per TASS, a state-run outlet. “It happened the day before yesterday, when our border guards appeased the violators of the Russian state border.”

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