US President Joe Biden said on Thursday: “I am willing to talk to Mr. Putin if he is genuinely interested and looking for a way to end the war. He has not done that before,” he said. Now the Russian regime has responded. President Vladimir Putin is still “open to contacts, to negotiations,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. defending is by peaceful, diplomatic means, but you should be far away from real conversations.
At the same time, Peskov stated that a withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine was out of the question. “Of course the military special operation will continue,” he insisted, declining Biden’s demands to end the war. For Moscow, the refusal of the US to recognize the annexed areas of southern and eastern Ukraine as Russian territory also hinders the search for a compromise.
“No immediate plans” for conversations
The US president has no “immediate plans” to contact Putin anyway, as he explained Thursday. If Russia is serious about finding a way to end its war of aggression, Biden said he would consult allies. He will not do anything that will harm Ukraine’s interests, he stressed.
French President Emmanuel Macron, on the other hand, would like to continue talking to the Russian rulers, he said during his state visit to Washington. He wants to prevent an escalation and achieve concrete goals, such as the protection of nuclear power plants.
Meanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke on the phone to Kremlin chief Putin for the first time since mid-September about the war in Ukraine, which has been going on for more than nine months. The Kremlin said on Friday that Putin drew attention to “the destructive line of Western states, including Germany, pumping weapons into the Kiev regime and training the Ukrainian army.”
Attacks in response to “provocations in Kiev”
This, as well as financial aid, led Ukraine to refuse negotiations with Russia, Moscow claimed. According to the announcement, Putin also called on Scholz to review German policy regarding Ukraine. The Kremlin head also defended the recent massive rocket attacks on Ukraine in response to “Kiev’s provocations” against civilian infrastructure in Russia, including the bridge to Crimea’s annexed Black Sea peninsula, which was heavily damaged by an explosion , and energy objects. The government in Berlin confirmed the call.
Putin once again called for a transparent investigation into the “terrorist attack” on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 Baltic Sea pipelines – with the cooperation of the Russian authorities. Explosions had ripped holes in pipes. Several Western countries, on the other hand, suspect Russia of sabotage.
Source: Krone
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