The Kremlin said Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to negotiations to secure Russia’s interests, but finding a mutual basis for talks is difficult because the United States does not recognize “new territories” in Ukraine that Moscow says belong to it.
U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday he had no immediate plans to contact Putin, but was ready to talk to the Russian president if he expressed a desire to end the war in Ukraine.
Biden said he would only do so in consultation with NATO allies.
Biden has said he is ready to talk to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, “if he is looking for a way to end the war” in Ukraine, stressing that he and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, are determined to detain the Russian president Vladimir Putin responsible for his war on the world.
Biden said during a bilateral press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House: “Putin believes he can crush the will of all those who oppose his imperial ambitions, but by attacking civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, stifling energy for Europe to raise prices, exacerbating the food crisis is bad for people.” The most vulnerable, not only in Ukraine but all over the world.
Putin will not succeed
He added: “But Putin will not succeed… President Macron and I have agreed that we will continue to work together to hold Russia accountable for its actions and mitigate the global effects of Putin’s war on the world.”
Biden also reiterated that “the United States and France strongly oppose Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine.”
“We affirm today that France and the United States, with all our allies, are stronger than ever against Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine,” the US president said.
“We will continue to give strong support to the Ukrainian people as they defend their homeland, their families, their sovereignty and their territorial integrity against the incredibly brutal Russian aggression,” he added.
Biden also thanked French President Emmanuel Macron for taking in Ukrainian refugees so far during the war.
