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The new U.S. special envoy for efforts to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Kurt Volker, is expected to meet with a Russian representative on August 21 in the Belarusian capital, Minsk.

The U.S. State Department announced on August 18 that Volker and the Russian representative would discuss “Russian-Ukrainian relations.”

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