The Moscow Times reports: “The top U.S. diplomat Marco Rubio issued a blunt call to his Russian counterpart to halt the ‘killing’ in Ukraine Wednesday, as Washington’s stance on Moscow hardened.

Rubio ‘reiterated President [Donald] Trump’s call for the killing to stop and the need for Moscow to take meaningful steps toward a durable resolution of the Russia-Ukraine war,’ State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said…”