This handout picture taken and released by Ukrainian Foreign Ministry press-service on January 28, 2022 shows members of the US Congressional delegation, led by Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Gregory Meeks and Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, posing for media prior to their talks in Kyiv.
According to a Macron aide, Putin told the French leader in a call lasting more than an hour that he had “no offensive plans”. Le Drian is expected to visit Ukraine together with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock on February 7-8 as part of a flurry of diplomacy. Since October, Russia has amassed more than 100,000 combat troops and equipment, as well as support forces, along its frontier with Ukraine and more recently in Belarus, which borders Ukraine on the north.
The West has rejected Russia’s key demands such as stopping new members join the alliance, but has laid down a raft of areas where it see room to negotiate with the Kremlin.To Macron, Putin made clear that the written responses from the West to his demands this week had fallen short of Russia’s expectations, the Kremlin said.
Russia has also demanded a pullback of NATO forces deployed to eastern European and ex-Soviet countries that joined the alliance after the Cold War.
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