00:00Our top story this hour. Amid concerns of Russia's military build-up near Ukraine, the United States held a conversation with the Kremlin.
00:07The talks come six months after Russia designated the United States as an unfriendly nation.
00:12Central Intelligence Agency Chief William Burns met Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly to discuss regional conflicts, waning kinship and the cyber security issue.
00:22The CIA chief also spoke to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky by phone after his meeting with the Russian President.
00:30Now, last week, the Pentagon said that it was monitoring the alleged build-up of Russian military near Ukraine.
00:35However, as you would recall, Ukraine downplayed the threat of the build-up near the Ukrainian army.
00:40It is now locked in a conflict with pro-Russian separators since Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014.
00:47The rift between NATO and Russia is at a simmering high.
00:50The Russian Navy conducted drills, destroying targets in the Black Sea after two U.S. warships were deployed to the region earlier this month in what was a joint operation with the NATO.
01:00U.S. President Joe Biden has vowed to help Ukraine fight Russian aggression, including armed supplies and a possible sanction on Russian-backed natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, which was waved earlier this year.
01:11Biden and Putin last met at a summit in June.
01:14The Kremlin has said that a bilateral meeting again between the two countries is a realistic possibility this year.
01:20Biden has said it back at some veryAI.
01:22And he said, they live here on social media.
01:23Probably because of a major role that he can look at the H House in the line.
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