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by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a session of the board of trustees of the Russian Geographical Society via a video conference call in Moscow, Russia April 14, 2021. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden have agreed to hold more talks amid tensions over a Russian troop build-up near Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Sunday, and Putin would like to meet in person at some stage too.
The Kremlin said Putin and Biden had agreed to hold more talks during a video call on Dec. 7 that focused on East-West relations, which have sunk to their lowest level since the end of the Cold War and are currently strained by the Russian troop build-up near Ukraine.
Biden used that video call to warn Putin that the West would impose “strong economic and other measures” on Russia if it invades Ukraine, while Putin has demanded guarantees that NATO will not expand farther eastward.
In a video released on state TV, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin had no particular grounds for optimism after speaking to Biden because of continued and very serious differences between Russia and the United States over Moscow’s so-called “red lines,” which it does not want the West to cross.
Apart from further NATO expansion eastwards, Russia has said it does not want certain offensive weapons deployed in countries that border it, such as Ukraine.
Putin on Dec. 7 told Biden that Russian troops were on Russian territory and did not pose a threat to anyone, Peskov said.
“The current … tensions and so on are being created to further demonize Russia and cast it as a potential aggressor,” Peskov added.
However, he said the two leaders had agreed to hold another round of talks, maybe by video link, a format the two presidents liked.
“(We will) definitely see each other, I would really want that to happen,” Putin told Biden, according to a short video released on state TV channel Rossiya 1.
The Kremlin said it was too early to say when the two leaders could meet in person.
The video call between Biden and Putin soothed investors’ nerves and helped the ruble regain some ground after a sell-off driven by another wave of fears about new Western sanctions on Moscow.
