The US believes that the time has not yet come for new contacts between Blinken and Lavrov

US Department of State Representative Ned Price. File photoWASHINGTON, May 20 The United States believes that the time has not yet come for new contacts with Russia at the level of heads of diplomatic departments, State Department spokesman Ned Price said Friday. Last time, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke on February 12 — before the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine. We believe that now is not the time for contacts between Secretary Blinken and Minister Lavrov, just like for other contacts between representatives of the State Department and their Russian counterparts,» Price said during the briefing. The United States has repeatedly stated at the official level that it considers holding a new conversations at the level of heads of diplomatic departments are unconstructive in the current circumstances. Meanwhile, last week, for the first time in almost three months, the heads of the defense departments of the two countries had a telephone conversation. Currently, as noted in Washington, communication channels between the two countries are significantly limited due to difficulties in the work of the diplomatic missions of Russia and the United States.US Secretary of State Says Russia Resigned from NATO