WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Russian live-fire exercises near the Ukraine border while Moscow holds talks on de-escalation with the United States and NATO were meant to intimidate and create a threat, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said on Wednesday.
"It's very hard for me to know what is in mind of President Putin. What I will say is there's no doubt it's meant to intimidate, it's meant to coerce it's meant to create a threat, to put pressure, to create a crisis," Sherman said in an interview with MSNBC from Brussels after talks with Russia and NATO. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu;)
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