Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Joe Biden aspire, despite their differences, to normalize relations, according to Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov. “Our president and the president of the United States indicated that we must aspire to normalize relationships and develop cooperation“Ushakov said, commenting on the virtual summit between the leaders of Russia and the US, which took place the day before.
At the same time, he stressed that given “the number of problems”, they will have to be solved for “months and maybe years”. “We will see how the situation will develop,” he was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti, adding that the first step towards normalizing relations will consist of contacts between the teams of both presidents.
Ushakov stressed that “given the special responsibility of both countries in matters of international stability,” Putin and Biden agreed “not to stop the dialogue” Russian-American, but “develop it at different levels”, including at the level of presidents. However, he specified that during the virtual summit Putin and Biden did not speak of a face-to-face meeting, although it is not ruled out in the future.
“First the videoconference was organized and then we will see the possibility of organizing a meeting between the two presidents in neutral territory at some point in the future,” he said. Ushakov confirmed that much of the conversation yesterday revolved around Ukraine. Putin told his US counterpart that it is NATO and not Russia that is responsible of the current military tension around Ukraine, as reported by the Kremlin shortly after the telematics summit.
“We should not put all the responsibility on the shoulders of Russia, since it is precisely NATO that makes dangerous attempts to colonize Ukrainian territory and increases its military potential on our borders,” he said. The head of the Kremlin thus responded to Biden’s claims on the supposedly “threatening” nature of Russian troop movements close to the Ukrainian borders and the sanctions that the US and its allies are willing to adopt in the event of a Russian attack on Ukraine.
Therefore, Putin assured that “Russia is seriously interested in obtaining guarantees reliable, legally embodied, that exclude the expansion of NATO to the east and the deployment of offensive weapons systems in neighboring countries of Russia. “The virtual summit, the first meeting between the leaders of Russia and the United States after their meeting in Geneva in Last June, it lasted for just over two hours and was carried out through a closed communication channel.
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