Vladimir Putin says West taking Russia’s ‘red lines’ too calmly

President Vladimir Putin stated on Thursday that the West was taking Russia’s warnings to not cross its “red lines” too calmly and that Moscow wanted severe safety ensures from the West.
In a wide-ranging overseas coverage speech, the Kremlin chief additionally described relations with the United States as “unsatisfactory” however stated Russia remained open to dialogue with Washington.
The Kremlin stated in September that NATO would overstep a Russian pink line if it expanded its navy infrastructure in Ukraine, and Moscow has since accused Ukraine and NATO of destabilising behaviour, together with within the Black Sea.
In the televised speech, Putin complained that Western strategic bombers carrying “very serious weapons” have been flying inside 20 km (12.5 miles) of Russia’s borders.
“We’re constantly voicing our concerns about this, talking about red lines, but we understand our partners – how shall I put it mildly – have a very superficial attitude to all our warnings and talk of red lines,” Putin stated.
US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP)
NATO – with which Moscow severed ties final month – had destroyed all mechanisms for dialogue, Putin stated.
He instructed overseas ministry officers that Russia wanted to hunt long-term ensures of its safety from the West, although he stated this might be troublesome and did notspell out what type the assurances ought to take.
Russia-West ties have been at post-Cold War lows for years, however the tone has sharpened in latest weeks as Ukraine and NATO international locations have raised fears over Russian troop actions close to Ukraine’s borders and tried to guess Moscow’s actual intentions.

But regardless of a rising record of disputes, the Kremlin has maintained high-level contacts with Washington and spoken repeatedly of a doable summit between Putin and US President Joe Biden to comply with up their preliminary assembly in Geneva in June, which Putin stated had opened up room for an enchancment in ties.
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by RIA information company as saying the 2 presidents might maintain a web-based assembly earlier than the top of the yr.
Earlier, Peskov instructed reporters that Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan mentioned cybersecurity, Ukraine and the migrant disaster on the Belarus border in a telephone name on Wednesday.
He stated the decision was a part of preparations for “high-level contact” between the presidents. (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin and Tom Balmforth and Darya Korsunskaya; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
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