“Kuleba and... Blinken agreed on further steps by Ukraine and the United States in implementing a strategy to proactively deter Russia from further “aggression,” the press service reports.
They also noted the progress in the preparation of coordinated restrictions on Europe in relation to Russia.
In addition, the parties discussed the dynamics of the negotiations in the Normandy format.
According to Kuleba, the United States handed over to Ukraine information about “possible preparation by Russia of fabricated pretexts for aggravation.”
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the US statement that Russia was allegedly preparing video provocations to launch an “attack” on Ukraine nonsense.
In turn, the official representative of the defense department of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic, Ivan Filiponenko, said that media representatives from Estonia, the United States and Britain are preparing staged stories about "the aggression of the Russian Federation and the self-proclaimed republics of Donbass."