US Ambassador in Russia John Sullivan was invited to the Kremlin after the conversation of the Presidents of the Russian Federation and the United States Vladimir Putin and Joe Bayden. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry.
According to the agency’s interlocutor, an American diplomat met with an assistant to the Russian leader Yuri Ushakov. “During the conversation, it was said that in the event that the American side against the background of the words of Bayden about intentions to improve relations with Russia will take new unfriendly relations in the form of sanctions, the Russian side will respond with the most decisive way,” said the source.
On Tuesday, April 13, Biden called Putin and proposed a meeting in the coming months on the territory of the third country. The American leader noted that she still hopes to build “stable and predictable” relations with Russia. According to the Kremlin, during the conversation, issues of strategic security, arms control, situations in Afghanistan and global climate change were also affected.
April 7 it became known that the United States plan to appoint a special representative for the destruction of the “Northern Flow-2”. Politico explained that the official will be responsible for negotiations on the termination of the gas pipeline construction. On the same day, US Ministry of Justice approved two packages of sanctions against the gas pipeline, but there is still no final decision on them.