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Crisis in Ukraine: tensions still high after a new exchange between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin

2021-12-30T23:22:14.344Z


The telephone exchange lasted about fifty minutes between Joe Biden and Vladimir Poutin. Despite this diplomatic effort, the two camps


Not sure that the phone call eases tensions between Russia and the United States.

A Kremlin spokesman said he was "satisfied" Thursday evening with the earlier telephone exchange between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart, Joe Biden.

The same spokesperson, however, reiterated his desire for “results” on his demands for “guarantees” of security, also believing that sanctions against Russia would be a “colossal error”.

On the White House side, more than the feeling after the exchange, we distilled what Joe Biden said to the Russian president.

So, said Joe Biden, the United States will respond "resolutely" to any Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The American president also estimated that an improvement of the relations between the two countries initially required a “de-escalation” in Ukraine.

The exchange between the two leaders lasted about fifty minutes.

This interview was very much at stake since it was intended to make the diplomatic channel prevail to get out of the crisis generated by the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The discussion was "frank" and "concrete," Kremlin diplomatic adviser Yuri Ushakov told reporters.

President Biden speaks on the phone with President Putin earlier today.

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- The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 30, 2021

A few hours before the call, the second in less than a month, Vladimir Putin, for his part, said he was “convinced” that an “effective” dialogue “based on mutual respect” was possible, recalling the summit in June in Geneva having brought together the two men.

Talks on January 10

Moscow, in the run-up to Russian-American talks on January 10 in Geneva, keeps repeating that the top priority is the negotiation of two treaties redefining the security balance and architecture of Europe.

For the Kremlin, Russia's security requires the prohibition of any NATO expansion and the end of Western military activities near Russian borders, an area that Moscow considers to be within its area of ​​influence.

In a previous telephone interview at the beginning of December between Joe Biden and Vladimir Poutine, the American president threatened his counterpart with sanctions "as he has never seen" in the event of an attack against Ukraine.

Russia and its elite are already the subject of multiple economic reprisals because of the Ukrainian case and the repression in the country, but none of these measures have changed the Kremlin's line, quite the contrary.

Moscow also denies threatening Ukraine, although it has already annexed part of the territory, Crimea, in 2014, and says it must protect itself against the hostility of Westerners who support Kiev, especially in its conflict with pro-separatists. -Russians.

The latter, despite Russian denials, are widely considered to be under the orders of the Kremlin.

Source: leparis

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