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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer, General Mark Milley, spoke by telephone with Russia's Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov, the Pentagon said on Thursday, the first conversation between the two since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has tried multiple times to try and talk with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu since the invasion started, but officials said Moscow had appeared uninterested.
For the first time since the Krelim launched a military operation in Ukraine nearly three months ago; US defense secretary Lloyd Austin and his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu spoke over the phone on Friday.