U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will push back on Russia’s attempts to "weaponize energy" and rally support for a Ukrainian counteroffensive when he meets NATO foreign ministers in Brussels next week, an official said on Thursday. A meeting of the U.S.-EU Energy Council will focus on joint efforts to "blunt Russia’s attempts to weaponize energy … (and) bolstering energy supplies for the coming winters," Dereck Hogan, the State Department’s principal deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, told reporters.
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