Watch a live broadcast from Brussels, Belgium where Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko is giving a press conference after the Russia-NATO Council meeting.
It was the council's first meeting in the past 2.5 years and it followed the lengthy negotiations between Moscow and Washington in Geneva on Monday when the sides discussed tensions that had escalated in late 2020 amid Western media reports that Russia was plotting an "invasion" of Ukraine, a claim Moscow strongly denied.
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