Biden says ready to talk to Putin but skeptical of Ukraine peace

the american president Joe Biden ready to talk to the russian leader Vladimir Putin, although he remains skeptical about peace in Ukraine. The meeting at the White House between the American and French presidents, Emmanuel Macron, resulted in a very long joint declaration that sets out the common positions, starting from russiawith a commitment to grant aid to Ukraine “as long as it is needed” without imposing peace and prosecuting Moscow’s war crimes.

The Frenchman continues to keep the door open for Putin, with whom he announced his intention to speak in the coming days, convinced that “negotiation is still possible”, and President Biden also said that he is “ready to talk to Putin if he shows signs of wanting to end the war”while also claiming that he “hasn’t yet”.

“I am ready to talk to Putin if there is really interest in him to end the war.” In that case, I would be “happy to sit at the table” with him, Biden said during the joint White House press conference with Macron. “There is a way to end this war: the rational way. Putin must withdraw from Ukraine’ he added.

Macron, for his part, anticipated that “he will continue to speak with Putin because we are constantly seeking the conditions for peace🇧🇷 We’ve always tried to avoid escalation and get to concrete results,” he said at the conference in Washington.

“Let’s stand together against Russia’s brutality” against Ukraine and “let’s continue to strongly support the Ukrainian people as they defend their homes and families, their kindergartens, their hospitals, their sovereignty, their integrity, against Russian aggression”, the American president said again after the meeting. “Putin thinks he can crush the will of all who oppose his imperial ambitions by attacking civilian infrastructure and Ukraine, cutting Europe’s energy to raise prices, exacerbating the food crisis through crises that is hurting the most vulnerable people. , not just in Ukraine, but all over the world” but “he won’t make it”.

“President Macron and I – again Biden – have decided that we will continue to work together to hold Russia accountable for its actionsto mitigate the global impacts of Putin’s war”.