Lavrov Agrees to Meet Blinken, U.S. Says: Ukraine Update

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov consented to meet U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken for talks in Europe one week from now, the State Department said Thursday night.
That advancement happened as strains rose again over Moscow's tactical development close to Ukraine. Prior in the day, President Joe Biden cautioned that the likelihood of an attack of Ukraine is still "extremely high."

Russia told the U.S. in its true reaction to security recommendations from Washington that it has no designs to assault, and authorities in Moscow have over and again excused U.S. alerts of a potential move against Ukraine as "agitation" and promulgation. Its unfamiliar service given over an archive Thursday with its perspectives, saying the U.S.response was unacceptable.
The different sides in the contention in eastern Ukraine - - government powers and Moscow-supported separatists - - blamed each other for defying truce norms.

Biden will talk with transoceanic pioneers on Friday about the Russian troop development, a White House official said on Thursday night. Additionally on Thursday night, the U.S. Senate passed a non-restricting goal on the side of Ukraine.