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MOSCOW -- The tone of the crisis over Ukraine shifted Monday as Russia's top diplomat endorsed more talks to resolve its standoff with the West and Ukrainian officials hinted at offering concessions to avert war -- even as Russian warships massed off Ukraine's Black Sea coast and Russian ground troops appeared poised to strike.
And a Biden-Putin call yields no breakthrough.
MOSCOW -- Efforts by French President Emmanuel Macron to defuse the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine yielded little visible progress Tuesday, as he hopped from Moscow to Kyiv to Berlin with no tangible assurance that tensions would ease.
MOSCOW -- Efforts by French President Emmanuel Macron to defuse the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine yielded little visible progress Tuesday, as he hopped from Moscow to Kyiv to Berlin with no tangible assurance that tensions would ease.
And inflation jumps again.