The Russian President asked for a call with US colleagues, the second among them this month, ahead of the scheduled talks between Senior A.S. and Russian officials next month in Geneva.
President Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin frankly for almost an hour Thursday in the midst of alarm that grew above the buildup of Russian troops near Ukraine, a crisis of the recently rated because the Kremlin strengthened his demands to increase security guarantees and test hypersonic missiles to underline the demands.
Putin’s foreign affairs advisor said Biden reiterated the US threat to new sanctions against Russia if there was escalation or invasion, which was responded to by Putin with his own warning that the movement A.S ..
“It will be a colossal mistake that will require big consequences,” said Yuri Ushakov. He added that Putin told Biden that Russia would act as M.S. Will if offensive weapons are deployed near American borders.
Putin asked for the call, the second between the leaders of this month, ahead of the talks scheduled between Senior A.S. and Russian officials set for January 10 in Geneva.
White House officials said that the call began at 3:35 a.m. Est and concluded 50 minutes later, after midnight in Moscow. There is no immediate reading of both sides.
Russia has explained that he wants a written commitment that Ukraine will never be allowed to join NATO and that the alliance military equipment will not be positioned in the former Soviet countries, demanding that Biden administration have become non-initial.
The White House said before the call that Biden would notify Putin that the diplomatic path remained open even when Russia had moved an estimated 100,000 soldiers against Ukrainian officials and the Kremlin had emerged the volume of new demands from the US and NATO.
These demands must be discussed during talks in Geneva, but still unclear what, if any, Biden will be willing to offer Putin in return on a crisis.
Draft Moscow security documents submit a request that NATO refused membership to Ukraine and other former Soviet countries and twisted the military deployment in Central and Eastern Europe.
The U.S. And his allies refused to offer Russian type of guarantee in Ukraine that Putin wanted, citing the principle of NATO that membership was open to each qualifying country. They agreed to hold talks with Russia to discuss their worries.
The security proposal by Moscow has raised the question whether Putin made unrealistic demands in expectations of Western refusal which would give him the pretext to attack.
Steven Pifer, a career foreign service officer who served as US Ambassador to Ukraine in the Clinton government, said the Biden government could carry out several Russian document draft elements if Moscow was serious about the conversation.
NATO key members have explained no appetite to expand the alliance in the near future. U8 and allies can also accept languages in the Draft of Russian documents to establish a new consultative mechanism, such as the NATO-Russian Council and the hotline between NATO and Russia.
“The design of the Principal proposed above NATO’s military activity in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, or Central Asia is overreach, but a few steps to limit military training and activities with a reciprocal basis may occur,” Pifer, who is now a senior colleague at the institution Brookings, wrote in the analysis for Washington Think Tank.
Biden plans to tell Putin that because it is “real progress” in their conversation must be carried out in the “de-escalation context than escalation,” according to a senior administrative official who gave a briefing to reporters. The official talked about the condition of anonymity.