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'The drumbeat of war is sounding loud and the rhetoric has gotten rather shrill':
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk By ELIZABETH ELKINDKremlin envoys said the talks were 'very disappointing' in Vienna Thursday and next steps would be reached after they brief Russian President Vladimir Putin
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov would 'neither confirm nor exclude' the possibility that Russia could send military assets to Cuba and Venezuela
Ryabkov said it was up to the United States how the situation would play out
But State Secretary Antony Blinken put the onus on Putin in an MSNBC interview
On Weds. Russia demanded a guarantee that Ukraine will never be let into NATO
But this was unanimously rejected, as were other demands made by the Kremlin
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned there was now 'a real risk of a new armed conflict in Europe' with Russia having built up troops on Ukraine's border
Meanwhile, Russia cranked up its war games with live-fire exercises