In turn, Russia has declared that it will eliminate threats to its security if the US and NATO do not grant the guarantees.
The new meeting by telephone between the president of the United States, Joe Biden, and its Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, It took place this Thursday in which both leaders have talked about everything about the scale of tensions on the border with Ukraine.
The White House press chief, Jen Psaki, issued a statement shortly after the meeting ended in which she made it known that President Biden had insisted to Putin on the need to “reduce tensions with Ukraine.”
“You have made it clear that The United States and its allies will respond decisively if Russia continues to invade Ukraine“, although at the same time Biden” has also expressed his support for diplomacy “, in the framework of the next meeting that will take place in January between Moscow and NATO.
For his part, Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov has said that Biden has promised Putin that the United States “does not plan to deploy offensive weapons in Ukraine“.
The talks have also served as a preamble to the planned between January 10 and 12 in Geneva.
The call has taken place at the request of President Putin and is the second that both leaders have maintained after the one on December 7, in which Biden once again emphasized the United States’ commitment to the territorial integrity of Ukraine and even threatened Russia with “unprecedented” economic sanctions if there was a hypothetical attack, something the Kremlin has denied.
Russia will eliminate threats to its security if the US and NATO do not grant guarantees
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has ensured that Russia unilaterally eliminate threats to your security if in a “reasonable period” of time the US and NATO do not grant the guarantees required by the Kremlin to reduce tension.
“We will not allow our initiatives to be entangled in endless discussions. As far as we know, the projects we are preparing are being studied in Washington and other Western capitals,” Lavrov said of the negotiations that will start on August 10 in Geneva.
He stressed that, for Moscow, it is “extremely important” the participation in the negotiations “of high military commanders of the US and the countries of the Alliance”, which could lead to agreements on conventional arms control.
I also emphasize that Moscow will not settle for anything other than legal and binding guarantees in writing since, “the western colleagues fail to fulfill their political commitments in a systematic way, let alone the verbal promises made to the Soviet and Russian leaders”.
He denounced that the war in Ukraine “is far from over” due to Kiev’s reluctance to settle the conflict and accused the West of supporting Ukrainian “militaristic aspirations” with weapons and instructors.
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