Russian presidential adviser Yury Ushakov described Saturday’s phone call between US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin as “balanced and professional”, but said the United States and the Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) failed to address Russia’s key security concerns.
Ushakov said the conversation, which lasted just over an hour, “took place in an atmosphere of hysteria about the supposedly imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine by American authorities, everyone knows that.”
Ushakov added: “Pressure around the topic of invasion was carried out in a coordinated manner and the hysteria reached its climax.”
According to Ushakov, Biden told Putin he was “committed to the diplomatic path and put forward a series of considerations that he sees as addressing many of Russia’s concerns.”
However, Ushakov added, Putin said the West ignored Russia’s key security concerns, saying the United States and its allies were “arming” Ukraine with new weaponry and encouraging provocations by Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region and Crimea. .
“The Russian side will, of course, carefully consider the considerations expressed by Biden and will no doubt take them into account, but unfortunately these considerations do not affect the core elements of Russian initiatives on the expansion of NATO, on not sending strike forces against to Ukraine. territory, about the return of the alliance [OTAN] to the state of 1997″, said Ushakov.
Source: CNN Brasil
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