U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken Expected to Address Ukrainian and Russian Tensions

This comes after the U.S. received a written response from Moscow after it sent it's own written answers following face-to-face meetings on the ongoing Ukraine crisis.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to address the tension at the Ukrainian and Russian border during a call with Russia’s minister of foreign affairs Sergei Lavrov.  This comes after the U.S. received a written response from Moscow after it sent it’s own written answers following face-to-face meetings on the ongoing Ukraine crisis.  The Kremlin said that Russia had not sent it’s ‘main reply’ to the u-s over Russia’s security concerns and said there was a ‘mixup’ over the issue.   State department officials confirmed yesterday that they had ‘received a written follow-up from Russia’ to a document sent in response to Russian security demands over NATO’s presence on eastern Europe.