Three months after the start of the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his readiness for dialogue with Kiev in a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. To write the Tass, citing the press service of the Kremlin.
“Special attention was given to the state of affairs on the negotiation track, which is frozen due to Kiev. Vladimir Putin confirmed that Russia is open to resume dialogue,” the statement read.
Putin further told Macron and Scholz that the Russian forces are committed to “restoring peace” in Mariupol and the other “liberated cities” of Donbass. Putin then stated that Russian forces “strictly observe the norms of international humanitarian law”.
Then the Russian president said he believed dangerous to send weapons to Kievunderlining “the issue of the dangerous ongoing shipment of Western weapons to Ukraine, warning of the risks of a further destabilization of the situation and of the worsening of the humanitarian crisis”.
As for food supply problems, they are caused by Western sanctions. “Based on specific data, Vladimir Putin explained the real reasons for the food supply difficultieswhich are the result of the misleading economic and financial policies of Western countries, as well as of anti-Russian sanctions they have imposed“, the Kremlin announced again in a statement.
“Russia is ready to find solutions for unhindered grain exports, including Ukrainian grain exports from Black Sea ports,” the Kremlin said. “Increasing supplies of Russian fertilizers and agricultural products would help reduce tensions on the global food market, which would, of course, require the removal of related sanctions,” concluded the Kremlin, noting that during the first half-way three-way phone conversation March, Putin, Macron and Scholz agreed to continue to maintain telephone contact.
For their part, in today’s telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin, which lasted about 80 minutes, Scholz and Macron “insisted on an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian troops“, said the spokesman of the German government, Steffen Hebeshtreit, at the end of the phone call, which lasted 80 minutes, and took place” on the initiative “of the German chancellor and the French president. The two leaders also” urged the Russian president to engage in serious negotiations with the Ukrainian president to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict “, added the German spokesman.
“The French president and the German chancellor also asked for the release of the approximately 2,500 Azovstal defenders taken prisoner by the Russian forces”, the Elysée said.
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