• Russian official media says, John Sullivan argues that Washington and Moscow “must preserve the ability to communicate to each other.”
• Despite the crisis generated by the war in Ukraine; Russia should not close the US embassy since the world’s two largest nuclear powers must continue to communicate, according to the US ambassador to Moscow.
• When asked if the two countries’ embassies could be closed; John Sullivan told the Russian state news agency TASS that doing so would be “a terrible mistake.”

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President Vladimir Putin has described the invasion of Ukraine as a watershed moment in Russian history; describing it as a struggle against US hegemony, which he claims has humiliated Russia since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991. Ukraine – and its Western backers – claim to be fighting for survival against a rash imperial-style land grab that has killed thousands of people; displaced more than 10 million people, and turned large swaths of the nation into desolation.