Washington and Moscow's top diplomats on Friday agreed to keep working to ease tensions over Ukraine, with the United States promising a written response to Russian security requirements next week and not ruling out a presidential meeting.
Washington and Moscow's top diplomats on Friday agreed to keep working to ease tensions over Ukraine, with the United States promising a written response to Russian security requirements next week and not ruling out a presidential meeting.
Russia has massed tens of thousands of troops on the Ukrainian border, denying it plans to invade but demanding security guarantees, including a permanent ban on the country joining NATO. He added that another meeting could be held between the two, but that it was "premature" to start talking about another summit between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, who met in Geneva last June.
In Kyiv, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted that he welcomed the fact that diplomacy "remains active."Washington then announced Saturday the first shipment of assistance to Ukraine had arrived to "bolster its defenses in the face of growing Russian aggression." Canada, meanwhile, has offered a loan of Can$120 million to support the country's "economic resilience" in the face of Russian efforts to destabilize it, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday.
The United States has warned that the clock is ticking, alleging that an invasion could come shortly and be preceded by a "false-flag" operation as Russia tries to trigger a casus belli against Ukraine.