American President Joe Biden admits the possibility of reaching any agreements with the Russian Federation on the issue of non-deployment of strategic weapons in Ukraine. On Wednesday, January 19, he said at a press conference at the White House.
“He [президент России Владимир Путин] told me he wanted two things, guarantees. One is that Ukraine will never join NATO. The second is that strategic weapons will not be deployed in Ukraine. We can come to something on the second element,” Biden said.
However, the American leader stressed that in this case, Moscow would also be expected to take retaliatory steps “in the European part of Russia.”
Joe Biden also explained that there are a number of agreements on joining NATO at the international level and in Europe, suggesting that “you can choose who you want to be with.”
Earlier in the day, the US President threatened a “catastrophe” for Russia in the event of an alleged “invasion” of Ukraine. Biden specified that it would be about strengthening the US presence in Eastern Europe. In addition, the Russian Federation, according to him, will not be able to conduct transactions with the dollar. And this, in turn, threatens to have a negative impact on the US economy, he added.
On January 18, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken not to replicate speculation about alleged Russian aggression in Ukraine, but to force Kiev to comply with the Minsk agreements. Earlier, he noted that Kiev is obliged to comply with the Minsk agreements, it cannot have any plan B. According to him, Ukraine is under the external control of the United States.
On January 16, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov stressed that Russia does not show military escalation against Ukraine.
Earlier, on January 14, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that the United States had evidence that Russia was allegedly preparing a pretext for invading Ukraine. Kirby noted that it was about “a group of operatives who are preparing to conduct a false flag operation.”
Sergei Lavrov said the same day that Russia had never threatened the Ukrainian people. In addition, the Foreign Ministry has repeatedly stressed that the Russian Federation did not attack and does not plan to attack Ukraine.
Source: IZ
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