The Kremlin believes that President Biden is ready to continue the dialogue with Putin.
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US President Joe Biden in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin several times stressed the inadmissibility of starting a nuclear war.
The edition writes about it TASS, referring to the words of Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov.
“It is very important that President Biden stressed several times during the conversation that a nuclear war cannot be started, nor can it be won,” he said.
According to Putin’s aide, “Biden also stressed that Russia and the United States could and should play a key role in efforts to ensure peace and security both in Europe and elsewhere in the world.”
Biden also reportedly assured Putin that the US was not going to deploy offensive strike weapons in Ukraine.
“The main point that sounded from the American side during this conversation was that President Biden clearly stated that the United States does not intend to deploy offensive strike weapons in Ukraine,” Ushakov said.
According to a Kremlin spokesman, the presidents of the United States and Russia spoke about security guarantees during the conversation, while issues on the bilateral agenda were not touched upon.
According to Ushakov, Putin pointed to the possibility of a complete break in relations between the two countries if the promised “unprecedented sanctions” are introduced.
“The Americans said that the movement of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border was unacceptable for them, they emphasize this,” Ushakov added.
The Kremlin believes that President Biden is ready to continue the dialogue with Putin.
“We talked very substantively, practically all the main topics were touched upon,” Ushakov added.
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As UNIAN reported earlier, on December 7, negotiations between the presidents of the United States and the Russian Federation took place with the help of a closed video communication channel. During the conversation, Biden warned the Russian president about serious economic and other measures in the event of an increase in military activity on the border with Ukraine.
After the talks, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said that Biden had refused to make concessions to Putin on the issue of Ukraine’s NATO membership prospects. Sullivan also said that the United States will provide additional defense assistance to Ukraine.
On December 9, a telephone conversation took place between Biden and Zelensky. As a result of the conversation, the White House said that Biden supported the principle “not to agree on any decisions and not to hold discussions about Ukraine without the participation of Ukraine itself.”
On December 17, the Russian Foreign Ministry published a draft treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States on “security guarantees” and a draft agreement on security measures for Russia and the NATO member states.
In particular, Russia proposes NATO to refuse to admit Ukraine to NATO, as well as “from conducting any military activity on the territory of Ukraine.” The Russian Federation also offers the United States not to create military bases on the territory of the countries of the former USSR and not to accept these countries into NATO.
US and Russian diplomats will hold security talks in Geneva on January 10 to discuss both countries’ military activities and rising tensions over Ukraine.
A meeting of the Russia-NATO Council is scheduled for January 12, and a multilateral meeting within the OSCE is to take place on January 13.
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