The Ukrainian president welcomed Washington’s unwavering after the US president assured “that the United States and their allies will respond energetically if Russia further invades Ukraine”.
The year 2002 has just started but Joe Biden intends to let go of the Ukrainian file. “President Biden made it clear that the United States and their allies will respond energetically if Russia further invades Ukraine,” said the White House spokesman in a statement, Jen Psaki, after a phone call , Sunday, January 2nd, between the American President and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky.
“We appreciate the unfactible support for Ukraine [from the United States]”, wrote Mr.Elensky on Twitter . “We mentioned the joint actions of Ukraine, the United States and its partners to maintain peace in Europe and avoid aggravation of the situation”.
From the White House spokesman, Mr. Biden assured Washington’s willingness to include Ukraine in negotiations on his own future. January 9 and 10, Russia and the United States will have talks on Ukraine in Geneva. Led by the US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and his Russian counterpart Sergei Riabkov, they will be followed on January 12 of a Russia-NATO meeting, and January 13 of a meeting in the context of the organization for the organization. Security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Last Friday, Joe Biden had already assured the Russian President again against an attempt to invade Ukraine during a telephone interview the day before: “I said clearly to President Putin as we Adopt stringent sanctions and we would increase our presence in Europe, among our NATO allies “. “We were clear: he can not, I repeat, he can not invade Ukraine,” Biden insisted.
It was the second telephone conversation between the two heads of state in three weeks, because of the tensions around Western Ukraine, with the mobilization of Russian troops on the eastern border of Ukraine .
“defeating the voltages in the donbass”
On Sunday, the US leader “expressed his support for confidence-building measures to defuse tensions in Donbass and active diplomacy to advance the implementation of Minsk ‘agreements,” according to Jen Psaki. According to these agreements, concluded under the auspices of France and Germany, Ukraine agreed to carry out political reforms and Russia to put an end to its support for pro-Russian separatist rebels. Washington and its European allies accuse Moscow to threaten the Ukraine of a new invasion, after that of Crimea in 2014, and to have fomented a pro-Russian separatist war that broke out the same year in the East. Some 100,000 Russian soldiers are massed near the country’s border.
For Moscow, the security of Russia involves the prohibition of any enlargement of NATO, perceived as an existential threat, and the end of Western military activities near the Russian borders, which it considers to be of its area of influence.
According to the Kremlin, Mr. Putin had said “satisfied” of the exchange of Thursday, about fifty minutes, while stating that new sanctions against Moscow will be “a colossal error”.
For more than a month, Russia has been accused by the Westerners of having massaged tens of thousands of soldiers near the Ukrainian border, with a view to possible military intervention against Kiev. But on December 25, Moscow announced that more than 10,000 Russian soldiers returned to their bases after one-month exercises in southern Russia near the Ukrainian border.