Apr. 28th, 2014

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Pentagon: Hagel's Russian counterpart won't return his calls
April 26, 2014 Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel cannot get his Russian counterpart to take his calls, the Pentagon said Friday -- amid a new report that the Kremlin has suspended high-level talks with U.S. officials.
Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren told reporters that Hagel is trying to speak with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, but the Russian Defense Ministry won't return his calls.
"We have made it clear to the Russians that Secretary Hagel is available for a phone call anytime," Warren said. "We have reached out to them and made it very clear to them that he is willing to speak with his counterpart" -- but, Warren said, "we have not heard back."
"He wants to tell the Russians to de-escalate the situation in Ukraine," Warren said. "Their continued destabilizing activities along the Ukrainian border are unhelpful and they need to withdrawal their troops from the Ukrainian border and place them back into their garrisons and go about working to a peaceful resolution to the crisis."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/26/pentagon-hagel-russian-counterpart-wont-return-his-calls/

Russian Troops Moving To Within Meters of Ukraine Border April 24, 2014

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5un26m6kiI

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