The West is "intentionally fomenting chaos, exacerbating the international situation"
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This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in a video message for a meeting of defense ministers of the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), reported by Tass.
"The potential for conflict in the world is growing, and this is a
direct consequence of the attempts of some Western elites to maintain their political, economic, financial, military and ideological hegemony by any means
," Putin added.
For his part, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov, in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper taken up by Interfax, stressed that the talks between Russia and the United States on the exchange of Viktor But with Brittney Griner "concerned exclusively" this question " and
it is wrong
to draw hypothetical conclusions that this could be a step towards overcoming the crisis we currently have in bilateral relations"
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According to Peskov, relations between the two countries "continue to remain in a sad state".
