The Kremlin said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to negotiations to secure Russia’s interests, but finding a mutual basis for negotiations is difficult because the United States does not recognize the “new territories” in Ukraine that Moscow says belong to them.
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he has no plans to contact Putin anytime soon, but is open to talking to the Russian president if he expresses a desire to end the war in Ukraine.
Biden said he would do so only after consulting with NATO allies.
Biden said he was ready to talk to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “if he is looking for a way to end the war” in Ukraine, stressing that he and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron are determined to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin to account for his war on the world.
Biden said during a bilateral press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House: “Putin believes he can crush the will of all those who oppose his imperial ambitions but attack civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, stifle energy for Europe to raise prices.” , exacerbates the food crisis, it hits people.” Very unprotected not only in Ukraine, but throughout the world.
Putin will fail
He added: “But Putin will not succeed… President Macron and I decided that we will continue to work together to hold Russia accountable for its actions and mitigate the global consequences of Putin’s war for the whole world.”
Biden also affirmed that “the United States and France strongly oppose Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine.”
“Today we reaffirm that France and the United States, with all our allies, are stronger than ever against Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine,” the US president said.
“We will continue to give strong support to the people of Ukraine as they defend their homeland, their families, their sovereignty and their territorial integrity from Russian aggression, which has been incredibly brutal,” he added.
Biden also thanked French President Emmanuel Macron for hosting Ukrainian refugees so far during the war.
