Instead, the Russian president is moving in the opposite direction.
The US believes that Moscow is not showing any signs desire to participate in meaningful negotiations. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken stated this at a joint briefing with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France Catherine Colonna.
According to him, the United States is ready to consider all diplomatic options communication with Russia, but only if they see that Moscow is open to dialogue. Currently, instead of returning to the diplomatic path, Russia is “doubling and tripling” its aggression.
“Everything indicates that President Putin actively does not want to participate in the promotion of diplomacy, instead he continues to move in the opposite direction,” Blinken emphasized. .
This week Russia increased its missile and drone attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Ukraine and the West called it a campaign to intimidate civilians before the cold winter.
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Earlier this month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview that Russia is ready to cooperate with the United States or Turkey on ways to end the war, which has been going on for eight months, but still has not received any serious proposal for negotiations.
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