The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is ready for an interview with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who urged him to sit at the table soon to find an agreement that puts an end to hostilities in Ukraine. The spokesperson of the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, told the reporters.
“Putin is ready, we are waiting for signals, everyone is ready,” explained Peskov who, asked about a possible phone call on the weekend, replied that “it is difficult to predict, we will keep you updated as soon as something happens, if it happens something”.
One of the fundamental conditions for a respite in Ukraine is to have “iron” guarantees that Kiev does not enter the NATO, said the deputy minister of Russian foreign, Alexander Grushko, in an interview with Rossiya 24. “For us this is a key element of a Possible agreement on the conflict in Ukraine, this element is linked to the elimination of the causes at the root of the conflict “, said Grushko,” we insist both on international legal guarantees iron that exclude any form of adhesion of Ukraine to NATO and on doing of ‘A policy of the alliance itself “.
An entrance to Kiev in the Atlantic alliance, continued the deputy minister, “excludes peace in Ukraine and, in a broader sense, the creation of any security architecture”. Grushko added that the decision of the born summit of Bucharest, which formalized the intention of the alliance to admit Ukraine and Georgia, “was catastrophic for European security” and “unless this position is withdrawn, It will be an absolutely unacceptable ambiguity for us whenever we talk about the need for a feasible, lasting and iron solution of the conflict inside and around Ukraine “.