Blinken speaks to Russia’s foreign minister for the first time since the war began.

By BY MICHAEL CROWLEY from NYT Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, declined to say how his Russian counterpart responded as he continued to seek the release of the W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, a former Marine.World https://ift.tt/9uowJVK
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