The US authorities believe that the telephone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Joe Biden, which took place on Saturday, was professional and meaningful. This was stated by a senior US administration official at a special briefing for journalists, TASS reports.

Earlier, an aide to the Russian president, Yuri Ushakov, said that the conversation between the leaders of the two countries took place in an atmosphere of unprecedented whipping up of hysteria by American officials about Russia's allegedly imminent invasion of Ukraine. It was with reference to such a scenario that the American side requested a conversation on Saturday, although Moscow had plans to hold a conversation on Monday. "The nature of the conversation was balanced and business-like," Ushakov said.

Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden spoke for just over an hour. The President of Russia announced Kiev's sabotage of the Minsk agreements, pointed to the danger of militarization of Ukraine and its pumping with modern weapons from the West, and also noted that the hypothetical entry of Kiev into NATO is fraught with a direct military confrontation between Russia and the Alliance. Biden mentioned anti-Russian sanctions.

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