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Putin in no mood to talk to Biden, Kremlin spokesman reveals US pressure to withdraw from Ukraine

Putin in no mood to talk to Biden, Kremlin spokesman reveals US pressure to withdraw from Ukraine

“Putin” is in no mood to talk. – AFP reported on December 3 on the progress after that President Vladimir Putin Russian leader on the phone with Prime Minister Olaf Scholz German leader Long hours on Friday, December 2, local time that

Scholz urged Putin to use diplomacy to resolve the war crisis in Ukraine as soon as possible. Including the withdrawal of Russian forces from the conflict area. This is the tenth month since Putin announced the launch of special military operations in Ukraine on February 24.

However, the Russian leader urged the German government to consider another approach. and accuses Western nations of pursuing destructive policies in Ukraine. As a result of mobilizing political and financial support, the Ukrainian authorities rejected the idea of ​​negotiations altogether. He also said that attacks on infrastructure in Ukraine are inevitable.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to participants of the Second Congress of Young Scientists at Sirius Park in Sochi, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

before President Volodymyr Zelensky Ukrainian leader categorically refuses any talks with Russia while Mr. Putin is still in power because Ukraine is already trying to talk with Instead, Putin used an illegal right to annex four Ukrainian territories: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia. It officially became part of Russia in September.

while Mr. Dmitry Peskov A spokesman for President Putin said the statement that the Russian leader was in no mood to discuss Ukraine. After President Joe Biden, the leader of the United States He said that he would meet with Putin if he really wanted to end the war. “What exactly is President Biden saying? He said that the negotiations were possible only if Putin withdrew from Ukraine,” said Peskov.

President Joe Biden speaks before signing HJRes.100, a bill that seeks to avert a freight rail strike, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, in Washington. The measure passed Thursday by the Senate and Wednesday by the House binds railroad companies and workers to a proposed settlement reached between the railroad companies and union leaders in September. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

And that Russia is not ready to accept such conditions. The US White House later said that President Biden did not wish to discuss anything. with Mr Putin now only repeating that he is ready to discuss other issues Despite the disappointment that Russia has refused to discuss nuclear weapons control.

On the same day, the G7 group of the world’s leading industrial countries AND the European Union (EU) agreed on Friday to freeze the price of Russian crude at $60, or about 2,080 baht per barrel. To drive Russia to send oil to the world market. and limiting the income that would fund Putin’s war effort. Some experts disagree, fearing that Russia could cancel oil shipments and send global oil prices higher again.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives at the Chancellor’s weekly cabinet meeting in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

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