U.S. and Russian negotiators held their first security talks since Russia’s deployment of tens of thousands of troops to the Ukrainian border sparked fears of an invasion, but they left the Monday talks saying they failed to narrow their differences.
Although both sides described the discussions as businesslike, they remain at odds over Moscow’s demands that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the postwar military alliance of Western powers, halt its expansion in Europe, and the U.S.’s insistence that Russia remove more than 100,000 Russian troops arrayed near Ukraine’s border.
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