After meeting NATO foreign ministers, Jens Stoltenberg says Vladimir Putin's recent comments around tactical nuclear weapons are 'empty promises'.
Mr Putin said Russia and China were not creating a military alliance and have not hidden anything about their military cooperationMr Stoltenberg said Russia was becoming more and more dependent on China, partly as a result of international sanctions imposed on Moscow over its war in Ukraine.US working to release journalist
"It's something that we're working through very deliberately, but expeditiously as well. And I'll let that process play out," Mr Blinken said in Brussels. Russia's FSB security service said on March 30 it had arrested Gershkovich, a US citizen, and accused him of gathering information about a Russian defence company that was a state secret.
The "wrongfully detained" designation means the responsibility for the case would be transferred from the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs to the office of the Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs, raising the issue's political profile and allowing the government to allocate more resources to securing Gershkovich's release.
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