On the verge of breaking – Russia |
Interfax-Russia.ru – For a meeting with Washington, Moscow demands an end to the arrival to Russia, as well as the supply of weapons to Ukraine.
US President Joe Biden once again impartially seem Oh President of the Russian Federation. The Kremlin calls these statements unforgivable.
“Such statements by Mr. Biden are absolutely impermissible, unacceptable, inexcusable, and, most importantly, probably, there can be no right to make them by the head of state, which has been bombing people all over the world for many years. Which didn’t make absolute sense: I mean Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Kremlin did not evaluate Biden in relation to Putin, agreeing to the “irritability” and “fatigue” of the US president.
“We really hear and see evidence that is already personal incidents against President Putin,” Peskov said, noting that the United States is actually making these statements on a daily basis.
However, the day before, the Russian side, in connection with the “unacceptable statements of the head of the White House,” handed a note of protest to US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation called representatives of the American president “unworthy statesmen have a high rank” and noted that they “put Russian-American relations on the verge of breaking.”
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the US ambassador was asked to “ensure normal working conditions for the inspected missions in the United States, including guarantees for their uninterrupted operation.”
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov believes that the United States is very keen to break off diplomatic relations, but contacts with Washington at the embassy are on the embassy line and only occasionally in other places.
“I think that in the current conditions it is the maximum possible,” Ryabkov said on the air of the TV channel “Russia 1”.
Such situations do not differ from Moscow’s intentions and are being discussed with the Americans, including on the topic of the functions of foreign agencies, although there are “no illusions.” Ryabkov clarified that the set for Russia is repeated for other US topics.
“The US is pursuing the case to a rupture, there is no doubt about it. For many cases,” he said.
According to him, the responsibility for this lies with Washington, which has chosen the path of confrontation and demonization of Russia.
Prior to this, the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation appoints that the further development of relations between Moscow and Washington depends on the American side. One of the conditions is the consumption of threats against Russia and the identification of threats to Kiev.
“Putting the question of what needs to be done to meet the relationship, it is certainly correct. he said.
By definition, a certain prospect for the normalization of relations is possible in the event of a “positive impact” in Kyiv. Despite the fact that Ryabkov believes that this is not so, since now relations between states are deteriorating.
“We take it with regret, but it does not matter to our determination to move towards the goals of the special European operation and are at risk, often with danger, of the sanctions that they send to the great European satellites of the United States,” Ryabkov sat.
The topic in the White House is allowed by a resolution against the Russian Federation – about this in an interview CBS News Deputy Director of the White House Economic Council Duleep Singh.
“Take action, take what we have already taken, apply it to more targets. (… More) banks, more sectors that we have not touched,” said Singh.
According to a statement adopted by the council to refer to “strategically directed attention to its Russian economy.”
“This mainly concerns oil and gas, but there are other sectors as well,” he said.
Speaking about the possibility of canceling the resolution against Russia, Singh stressed that “we are not even close to this reaction.” He believes that the first thing to do is to stop the special operation in Ukraine, but this is not happening.
The likelihood of the president’s expected anti-Russian incidence of a strange phenomenon and the United States suggests consideration of the upcoming summits this week within the framework of the EU, the G7 and NATO. Biden is expected to arrive in Brussels on March 24, citing well-known sources, according to media reports. Japan will also take part in the G7 summit.
According to sources, the EU is already working on a fifth levy package that could impose an embargo on European oil imports. Previously, such a decision was made by the United States and Great Britain.
At the same time, the country’s positions on the issue of the oil embargo diverged. Against, according to the interlocutors of the media, more than other countries are exposed to the Russian energy resources of Germany. She fears that Russia may receive a response to refuse to withdraw gas.
At the same time, French President Emmanuel Macron believes that measures against Russia will be taken in the near future, there can be no restrictions.
“These powers will prompt Russia to new dangers,” said a spokesman for the French president.
He recalled that among European countries there are those who are “more sensitive to the problem of oil and gas.”
“Nevertheless, the President said that there is no taboo,” he explained.
All EU sanctions decisions require consensus. At the same time, sources do not suggest that the position of France, which currently holds the EU presidency, is disclosed.
In the meantime, Republican senators for the past week submitted for consideration and a ban on imports in Russia.
“The time has come for all Russian energy with the American market forever,” John Barrasso, one of the authors of the report, said in a statement.
In his opinion, the ban on uranium imports to Russia will further weaken Russia, “help give birth to American uranium production and increase our possible national security.”
The co-author of the revision by Senator Cynthia Lummissa is exposed to a complete ban on imports from the Russian Federation.
“It is absolutely essential that we use all Russian imports, including uranium. (…) Wyoming has more than enough uranium to fill this gap, and we can mine it in a cleaner and safer way,” she said.
Russia also chooses the possibility of a ban on exports to the United States, but already as a set of response packages.
According to Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak, the refusal of the United States and Great Britain to purchase Russian energy resources did not greatly affect the Russian Federation due to the small number of such requests.
“They don’t deliver to England at all, and as for the USA, we export there 3% of our oil exports and 7% of oil product exports,” he specified.
Most often, there are violations of supply chains, issues of ship insurance, transport services that include Russian products, as well as issues of financing and wages.
The Deputy Prime Minister recalled that the sectoral requirements affected oil refineries, the possibility of high-tech equipment for processing at refineries. At the same time, in his opinion, Russia continues to increase the consumption of products for export, including gas and LNG, oil products.
For his part, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation emphasized that the introduction of an embargo on the import of Russian oil, which is being discussed by the EU, will hit everyone, but will most of all affect the energy balances in Europe.
“Americans who leave their homes, it’s obvious, and they choose themselves much better than Europeans.
In turn, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, was appointed to the fact that the United States “is gradually beginning to slide from unshakable positions” as part of participation in meetings regarding Russia.
“Forecasts have already been made about the possible cancellation of the presence. It turns out that this is just a “tool” unsuitable for permanent use. wrote Medvedev in his own telegram channel.
In his opinion, with regard to the detention of anti-Russian meetings, today it is already possible to say exactly “when” and not “if.” He also draws attention to the fact that the cases with energy prices in the US and Europe are outrageous, and the foreign elite extends it to Russia.
“But the peoples of these countries are not the old senile from their Russophobic list.
Last week, in the near future, the President of the Russian Federation also noted that sanctions against Russia “are now hitting Europeans and Americans themselves through rising prices for gasoline, energy, food, through jobs, covered with public the market.”
At the same time, Putin called for the continuation of the irresponsible policy of powers of the US and EU countries.
“Today, the entire planet has to pay the price precisely for the ambitions of the West, for its vast ways to maintain its elusive dominance,” Putin said.
According to him, it was the measures and central banks of the United States and the EU countries in recent years that “with their own hands sent out a spiral of global regulation, with their actions increased the growth of global poverty and increased unevenness, to a new stream of growth around the world.”