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President Xi Jinping of China and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia during Mr. Xi’s visit to Moscow this week, as seen in a photograph provided by the Russian state-owned news media. MOSCOW — Russia’s deputy foreign minister said this week that the risk of nuclear war between his country and the United States was at its highest in decades. American support for Ukraine has put Russia “in a de facto state of open conflict with the United States,” the Russian deputy foreign minister, Sergei A. Ryabkov, said during a conference in Moscow about Russia’s decision to suspend its participation...
