The Kremlin said on Wednesday that communication remained “essential” in relations with the United States, amid tensions over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“Communication is essential, in the future we will still have to communicate,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a teleconference when asked about the state of relations between the two countries.
“The US is not going anywhere, Europe is not going anywhere, so somehow we will have to communicate with them,” he said.
Relations between Russia and the West were already strained to levels dating back to the Cold War, even before Moscow sent tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine in what it calls a “special military operation”.
The West responded with an unprecedented series of sanctions, and US President Joe Biden has vowed to make Russian President Vladimir Putin an “outcast” on the world stage. Russia has accused Washington of waging an “economic war”.
Peskov said the current situation made it “unlikely” that the two sides would revert to what he called “the spirit of Geneva” – a reference to a 2021 summit between Biden and Putin that raised hopes of a limited truce.
“Is it possible to return to the spirit of Geneva, when there was some hope? Hardly,” said Peskov. “It is unlikely that we can indulge in old hopes when we see what is happening now,” he added.
He also said that future communication between the two countries would have to be based on “respect and mutual benefit”, but added: “this is not a topic on the short-term horizon”.
Source: CNN Brasil
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