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“Sad” characterizes Russia-US relations the Kremlin a “breath” before the Putin-Biden fours

The Kremlin describes the state of Russia-US bilateral relations as “quite sad”. Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with US President Joe Biden. “The talks between the two leaders will last a long time,” said Dmitry Peshkov.

Focusing on the agenda of the talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov, after clarifying that the meeting will be in the form of a video conference, and that the first footage of the meeting will be broadcast live, said that the two leaders will discuss the results of the meeting. Geneva, a series of issues related to bilateral relations and, of course, the tension around Ukraine, which will be at the center of the talks.

«They will need to discuss how those arrangements, which were reached in Geneva, are being implemented, look back and see what is being implemented and what requires additional efforts.Underlined his representative Kremlin He added that “of course there are also bilateral relations, which are still in a rather sad state.”

“Then the presidents will discuss those issues, which are certainly” noisy “on the agenda and are primarily the tension around Ukraine, the issue of NATO expansion to our borders and the initiative of the president Putin for security guarantees “, Peshkov noted as broadcast by the Athenian News Agency.

“Security guarantees regarding NATO enlargement can not be unilateral”

At the same time, he stressed that security guarantees regarding NATO enlargement could not be unilateral, “guarantees must exist on both sides,” he said.

U.S. officials have pointed to unusual moves by Russian troops near Ukraine in recent months and have raised concerns about what they say is a Russian-led invasion, which Moscow has dismissed as alarming.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov said that what Russia sees as a creeping NATO extension to its borders and the long-term security guarantees that Putin has said Moscow needs from the West will be at the heart of tomorrow’s meeting.

Putin has said that there must be legally binding guarantees that NATO will not expand further east, and that certain types of weapons systems will not be deployed in countries close to Russia, including Ukraine.

Putin is expected to raise the possibility of another US-Russia summit with Biden. The two men last met at a summit in Geneva in June.

Peshkov said talks between the two leaders would begin “at around six in the afternoon” (Moscow and Greece time), while expressing confidence “that it will be a fairly comprehensive and lengthy conference call, it will be a secure conference call” which ” it will take a long time “.

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