Biden proposes to Putin to hold a summit in a third country

Yesterday, US President Joe Biden proposed to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to hold a summit in a “third country” during “the coming months” in order to “build a stable relationship” with Russia, according to the White House.

And the white whites announced in a statement that Biden expressed, during a new telephone conversation with Putin, his “concern about the sudden build-up of Russian forces in occupied Crimea and at the Ukrainian border,” calling on Moscow to “reduce tensions.”

Relations between Moscow and Washington deteriorated sharply last month, when Russia recalled its ambassador from the United States, after US President Joe Biden said he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin was a murderer.

The Russian president protested against his US counterpart’s description of him as a “killer,” while the Kremlin said that Joe Biden “does not want to improve” relations between the two countries.
And Russia surrounded the Ukrainian borders with tanks and thousands of soldiers and started threatening “large-scale combat operations” in a threat to the West.

Pictures published by the British newspaper Daily Mail on April 9 showed Russia moving tanks, missile trucks and howitzers to Crimea and the borders of the disputed Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, which has been occupied by Moscow-backed separatists since 2014.

Satellite images and social media have revealed new Russian camps and artillery batteries in the Voronezh and Krasnodar provinces, east of the Donbas.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at the time that the situation in eastern Ukraine was “very unstable” and warned that it might lead to “large-scale combat operations.”

Source: Aljisr