MADRID, 22 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, has stated this Friday that his country is open to diplomacy with Russia in order to negotiate an agreed end to the war in Ukraine, although he has indicated that Moscow is not for the work of this via.
“We reaffirm our commitment to meaningful diplomacy that can end the war, even as Moscow continues to demonstrate by its escalation actions that its pretense of being open to diplomacy is as empty as it has been since President Putin launched his invasion. in February,” said the head of the State Department at a press conference.
However, while Blinken has noted that the United States is “by all means considering and reconsidering” diplomacy as a means of ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia “shows no signs of being willing to engage in meaningful US diplomacy.” no way”.
“When it comes to diplomacy to end the war, it depends entirely on whether Russia gets to a place where it really is interested in stopping the aggression that it started, and we haven’t seen evidence of that at this point,” he said. the Secretary of State, according to a statement from the department he heads.
Instead, Russia would be “doubling and tripling its aggression” with the partial mobilization of hundreds of thousands of Russians, or the holding of “fake” referendums to annex four Ukrainian regions, according to the United States government.
In this sense, he stressed that “the fundamental problem” of the Ukrainian people “is not only extraordinarily brave and resistant, but also very successful in repelling aggression and recovering their land.”
For this reason, according to Blinken, Russia would not be willing to open negotiations, since “Ukrainians fight for their country, for their land and for their future”, while Russia does not.
“The sooner Russian President Vladimir Putin understands that and comes to that conclusion, the sooner we can end this war,” said the head of US diplomacy.
