CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta February 12, 2022 20:06:00
In the sort of antony blinken/lavrov call and the putin/macron call, russia trying to put pressure on the united states, on france, jeremy germany and others to put pressure on ukraine to comply in their view with the minsk agreement, to get talk with the russian-backed pro separatists, and they don't want to get into those conversations. so there was that pressure coming from russia on that. the other pressure from blinken to lavrov and macron to putin, was if you are really serious about having a diplomatic off-ramp and want to get into that conversation, deet sclat, something we hear from t...