Representatives of Russia and the United States will meet in Geneva on Sunday evening before a crucial meeting the next day on Ukraine and security in Europe.
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The tension between Russia and the United States on the Ukrainian file is still very high. Moscow ruled out, on Sunday January 9, any “concession” during high-stakes talks with Washington in Geneva on Ukraine and security in Europe, further saying “disappointed” by the “signals” sent by the Americans.
Representatives of Russia and the United States will meet in Geneva on Sunday evening before a crucial meeting the next day on Ukraine and security in Europe, amid heightened tensions. Russia is accused by the West of having massed tens of thousands of soldiers on the border of neighboring Ukraine in anticipation of a possible invasion, which Moscow denies.
The talks scheduled for Geneva were held after Russia submitted demands for “to guarantee its security”. At the top of its demands are a NATO commitment not to integrate Ukraine and the withdrawal of American soldiers from the most eastern countries of the Atlantic Alliance. These requests were qualified as“unacceptable” by several Western officials.
Last month US President Joe Biden threatened his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin with sanctions “as he has never seen” if Moscow attacked Ukraine.