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The US have stepped up its engagement with European allies ahead of a crucial meeting between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and Russia. The meeting will be held today. Washington made it clear that Moscow’s proposal seeking curtailment of NATO’s engagement, activities, and expansion in the east was a non-starter and it reiterated its warning that any Russian aggression in Ukraine will result in severe costs.
Today’s meeting is the second in a series of three dialogues between the US and Russia in different settings this week, even as tensions between the two countries have intensified in recent days over Russia’s military build-up along the border with Ukraine.
On Monday, US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman met her Russian counterpart, Sergei Ryabkov, in Geneva as a part of a strategic stability dialogue, focused on bilateral issues between the two countries.