US Refutes Russian Claim of Broken Communication

The United States is denying claims made by a Russian spokesman that the two countries had all but frozen communication channels, saying both sides were still engaged. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Mir TV earlier Wednesday, that "almost every level of dialogue" had been severed with the United States. But State Department spokesman John Kirby says Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had spoken by phone as late as Tuesday about the...

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