MOSCOW — The Kremlin on
Saturday denounced US “peak hysteria” surrounding the Ukraine conflict but said
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US leader Joe Biden had agreed to continue
dialogue.
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Speaking after new
phone talks between Putin and Biden, the Kremlin’s top foreign policy advisor
Yury Ushakov told a conference call: “Hysteria has reached its peak.”
Ushakov said that
the US side had requested to arrange phone talks between Biden and Putin on
Saturday even though such a call had initially been planned for Monday.
The two leaders
spoke after Washington warned that an all-out Russian invasion of Ukraine could
begin “any day”.
Ushakov complained
about the US claims, saying that Americans even released “the date of the
Russian invasion”.
“We don’t
understand why false information about our intentions is being passed to the
media,” he told reporters.
He said that Putin
once again complained that the West has been arming Ukraine and that Kyiv
authorities have been “sabotaging” Western-brokered peace agreements to end a
years-long conflict in eastern Ukraine.
At the same time
Ushakov called the one-hour phone talks between the two leaders “balanced and
business-like” and added that “the presidents have agreed to continue contacts
at all levels”.
Russia is
demanding binding security guarantees from the West that includes a pledge to
roll NATO forces out of eastern Europe and to never expand into Ukraine.
Washington has
flatly rejected the demands while offering to discuss a new European
disarmament agreement with Moscow.
Ushakov said
Moscow would take into account Biden’s point of view as it prepares to respond
to Washington and NATO’s proposals.
“The Russian side
will carefully analyze Biden’s concerns.”
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