Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the words of the American leader Joe Bayden about the Russian president Vladimir Putin outrageous. It quotes RIA Novosti.
“This is outrageous, unprecedented rhetoric. But for rhetoric you always need to see real affairs, and they began long before this interview [Bayden], while administration [former presidents] Barack Obama and Donald Trump (…). I have In view of the consistent destruction of the entire deterrence infrastructure in the military-political and strategic sphere, “the diplomat said.
On March 18, Putin, commenting on criticism to his address from Bayden, said that it was ready to hold an open conversation in direct air with US president. On March 22, the American side officially rejected the proposal of the head of Russia.
On March 17, Biden in an interview with ABC NEWS TV channel stated that he wants to urge the Russian state to answer the alleged interference in the US elections. He spoke about a conversation with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin and added that he would “pay”, if it is guilty. In the same conversation, Biden made an impartial statement to the Russian president.