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The leaders of the United States, France and Germany have agreed that they must respond to Russia’s decision to recognize the breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine as independent entities, German Chancellor Olaf Solz said on Monday.
He declined to say what kind of sanctions the West intends to impose on Russia. He clarified that Mr. Soltz had talks with French President Emanuel Macron and US President Joe Biden after the speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The leaders expressed their determination not to loosen their commitment to Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty, he stressed.
For his part, the Elysee stressed that the Russian president must be in “some kind of ideological deviation” and in his speech yesterday Monday mixed “rigid” and “paranoid” concerns.
Vladimir Putin “made the clear choice to violate his commitments”, “did not keep the word he gave” to French President Emanuel Macron, the latter’s services stressed, without ruling out new Russian “military actions”.
For its part, the US government would “consider” the next military moves of Russia before imposing new measures of retaliation against Moscow, said a senior official of the US presidency after the recognition by the Kremlin the independence of Ukraine’s regions are in hands of pro-Russian separatists.
Washington will continue its diplomatic efforts “as long as Russian tanks are not in motion,” the official told reporters, declining to say explicitly which military maneuvers would be considered a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
* With information from ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
Source: Capital
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