UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russian and Ukrainian defence officials have made contact in an effort to reduce potential armed confrontation in Crimea, the United Nations said on Thursday, indicating some movement toward defusing the worst East-West conflict since the end of the Cold War.
"The secretary general was encouraged that we see, like we saw today, a working level, if I can call it that, between senior defence officials to de-escalate some of the flashpoints that we saw in Crimea," the spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a teleconference briefing with reporters from Moscow.
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