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

https://ift.tt/eLPya8b 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.

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