On Friday in Geneva, the top US diplomat Antony Blinken met with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. The meeting comes at a time of heightened tension between Russia and Ukraine as Russia continues to amass tens of thousands of its troops near the border with Ukraine. Host Carol Hills speaks with Myroslava Gongadze, “Voice of America’s” Eastern Europe chief based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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