For now, Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine has scuttled prospects of a diplomatic resolution between the U.S. and Russia. The door to diplomacy, however, has been shut but not locked, U.S. officials said.
on Monday night claiming that modern Ukraine was “entirely created” by Russia. “Ukraine is not just a neighboring country for us. It is an inalienable part of our own history, culture, and spiritual space,” he said. The decision to allow nationalists in Ukraine to secede from the Soviet empire a century ago, he added, was “absolutely incomprehensible, even crazy.”
For now, Putin’s decision to invade has scuttled prospects of a diplomatic resolution between the U.S. and Russia. A meeting scheduled for Thursday between Blinken and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and a French-brokered summit between President Biden and Putin are off, Blinken announced on Tuesday. The door to diplomacy, however, has been shut but not locked, U.S. officials said.
In further remarks on Tuesday, Putin said that Ukraine could defuse the tensions by promising never to join, recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and demilitarizing. Ukraine’s democratically elected government, however, has been firm in its resolve to joinand the European Union in the future—a policy enshrined in a constitutional amendment in 2019. After Putin’s speech on Ukraine, Zelensky told his nation late Monday night, “We are not afraid of anyone or anything.
. They established a ceasefire and two broad principles: the disputed eastern regions would remain in Ukraine but be granted greater autonomy as the basis for negotiations. “This decision amounts to a complete repudiation of Russia’s commitments under the Minsk agreements, directly contradicts Russia’s claims that it is committed to diplomacy, and is a clear attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity—as well as the U.N.
Other Western nations took punitive action against Moscow, albeit not the sweeping package that the U.S. and its allies have been discussing for weeks. In one of the most significant moves, Germany halted the Nord Stream 2 project, a pipeline of more than seven hundred and fifty miles that would supply gas from Russia to Europe.
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