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There is no such thing as a prospect of talks between the NATO alliance and Moscow, a senior Russian official has stated. 

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

“I do not see any prospects [of Russia-NATO talks] for the time being,” he stated, including: “In fact, you possibly can’t say by no means.”

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

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

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

“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 obligatory.”