U.S. and French presidents said in a joint statement they were committed to holding Russia to account for ‘atrocities and war crimes’
President Vladimir Putin is open to talks on a possible settlement in Ukraine but the refusal of the United States to recognize annexed territories as Russian is hindering a search for any potential compromise, the Kremlin said on Friday.
Putin has said he has no regrets about launching what he calls Russia’s “special military operation” againstand casts the war as a watershed moment when Russia finally stood up to an arrogant Western hegemony after decades of humiliation in the years since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. Fighting continued to rage in eastern Ukraine, with the town of Bakhmut the main target of Moscow’s artillery attacks, while Russian forces in the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions were on the defensive, Ukraine’s General Staff said.
Biden told reporters he was prepared to speak with the Russian president “if in fact there is an interest in him deciding he’s looking for a way to end the war,” adding that Putin “hasn’t done that yet”. There are no political talks under way to end the war, which Russia began on Feb. 24 as a “special military operation” claiming its aim was to disarm its neighbour and root out leaders it characterizes as dangerous nationalists.
Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko on Thursday told residents to stock up on water, food and warm clothes in the event of a total blackout.
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