The communications line is basically an exchange of phone numbers between both sides for quick access. “The United States retains a number of channels to discuss critical security issues with the Russians during a contingency or emergency.” “The Department of the Defense recently established a deconfliction line with the Russian Ministry of Defense on March 1 for the purposes of preventing miscalculation, military incidents, and escalation,” a senior US defense official said in a statement. Kozyrev was the first foreign minister of Russia under Boris Yeltsin after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. On Tuesday, Kozyrev took to Twitter calling on all Russian diplomats to resign from their posts in protest of Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. He cautioned that sanctions targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are “like doing almost nothing - because nothing, I think, is in their names … You can’t find their assets. Kozyrev also said sanctions from the West against Russia “should start to target the decision-makers or executers of those decision-makers in the government. Now they are destroying the future of all brotherly people with this fratricidal war,” he added. And that’s kind of increased the appetite unfortunately, not for building Russia. “But later on, I started to understand that they are going down the hill, so to say, and they feel impunity, both at home and abroad. Whether I could imagine it when I was the foreign minister, it was completely out of question.” In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Kozyrev said, “It’s a barbaric act.

Today business line news