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A week of talks between Russia and the West that began with guarded optimism has ground to a halt amid talk of dead ends and the “drumbeat of war,” as the two sides retreated to their capitals to huddle over what’s next.
“The meetings themselves in the last couple of days have not led to any large changes in the intelligence picture that we see” around Ukraine, NATO’s top military official, Adm. Rob Bauer, told reporters in Brussels on Thursday afternoon, suggesting the continuation of
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