Russia (bbabo.net), - Saturday's telephone conversation between the presidents of Russia and the United States lasted just over an hour. Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden continued to discuss Russian security guarantees amid growing tensions over alleged plans to "invade" Ukraine. Assistant to the President of Russia Yuri Ushakov told how the conversation went and outlined its essence in detail. publishes the main results of the talks at the highest level.
The leaders talked for a little over an hour.
- The conversation was balanced and businesslike.
- The theme is the issues of providing long-term, legally fixed guarantees of Russia's security.
- The conversation was planned on February 14, the White House asked to speed it up, referring to the likelihood of Russia's "invasion" of Ukraine.
- The conversation took place in an atmosphere of unprecedented hysteria by Washington about Russia's allegedly imminent "invasion" of Ukraine
- Putin claimed Kiev sabotaged the Minsk agreements and said that the West was not "pressing" the Ukrainian authorities to fulfill their obligations.
- Putin pointed out the danger of militarization of Ukraine, noted its pumping with modern weapons from the West - this encourages possible provocations of the Ukrainian security forces in relation to the Donbass and Crimea.
- Putin said that the hypothetical entry of Kiev into NATO is fraught with a direct military confrontation between Russia and the Alliance.
- Biden outlined considerations for providing security guarantees, which, in his opinion, take into account many Russian concerns.
- Putin assured that Biden's considerations would be taken into account in Moscow's response, but they do not affect the key elements of Russian initiatives - neither on NATO expansion, nor on the non-deployment of strike forces on Ukrainian territory, nor on the return of the configuration of the Alliance forces to the state of 1997.
- Biden mentioned anti-Russian sanctions, but the emphasis was not on that.
- The incident with the US submarine in the Kuriles was not discussed.
- Russia will soon respond to US and NATO responses on security assurances.
- The leaders agreed that contacts between Russia and the United States will continue at various levels on all topics raised in the telephone conversation.
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