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There isn’t any prospect of talks between the NATO alliance and Moscow, a senior Russian official has mentioned. 

Alexander Grushko, the nation’s deputy overseas minister, informed Russian outlet Izvestia that speak of NATO peacekeepers being deployed to Ukraine was “absurd”, and that there have been no plans for communications over the conflict or anything at current. 

“I do not see any prospects [of Russia-NATO talks] in the meanwhile,” he mentioned, including: “In fact, you’ll be able to’t say by no means.”

He additionally revealed the “hotline” is obtainable for contact between the alliance and Moscow in an emergency. 

The hotline, much like the Washington-Moscow “purple phone” (which established in 1963 to scale back the misperceptions that stoked the Cuban Missile Disaster), permits direct contact between senior choice makers on either side within the occasion of an imminent nuclear conflict. 

“There’s solely a hotline with NATO headquarters, which is supplied on our half by the embassy of the Russian Federation in Belgium,” Grushko mentioned. 

“It has not but been activated, however we’ve formally notified the management of the alliance about it. They know the place to name if needed.”