New contacts between Russian and US presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden may be needed if necessary, but there are currently no plans to do so, the Russian president’s spokesman said, citing fake news reports that Xi Jinping had asked for by Putin “not to attack Ukraine” during the Winter Olympics.
“If necessary, nothing can be ruled out, as well as contact at the highest level. “But at the moment no such thing is being discussed,” Dmitry Peshkov told reporters when asked when there could be a conversation between the two leaders.
According to Peshkov, issues related to the timetable for the continuation of Russian-American contacts will be decided after, as he said, the written response to Russia’s proposals on security guarantees is received.
Putin and Biden had a telephone conversation late last year, and on December 7 they had a video conference. The first meeting between them took place in June 2021 in Geneva.
The Kremlin spokesman also described reports that Chinese President Xi Jinping had asked Putin “not to attack Ukraine” during the Winter Olympics, as fake news and a source of tension between NATO and NATO. USA.
“This is a way of creating tension, which is being carried out by NATO and the United States,” the Kremlin spokesman said, referring to the Chinese president’s own “request” to throw it in the “hysterical basket full of hysteria.” ».
Earlier, Bloomberg quoted an anonymous diplomat as saying that Chinese President Xi Jinping may have asked Putin not to attack Ukraine during the Winter Olympics in Beijing from February 4 to 4.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described the report as a “special intelligence operation” by the United States.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said the report was not only a slander but also an attempt to tarnish the Beijing Winter Olympics, stressing that any attempt to provoke Sino-Russian relations was doomed to failure.
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