US State Department: we continue dialog with Russia

US State Department spokesman John Kirby commented on the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov 's statement, stressing that the US administration didn't stop diplomatic engagement with Russia.

‎"It's difficult to know exactly what is meant by this comment, but diplomatic engagement with Russia continues across a wide range of issues," Kirby said in an emailed statement. "That we have significant differences with Moscow on some of these issues is well known, but there hasn't been a break in dialogue."

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke by phone on Tuesday regarding the situation in Syria, Kirby said.