Russia cannot accept the current format of the US proposal to end the war in Ukraine because, according to the Russian deputy foreign minister, it does not address the problems that Moscow believes caused the conflict. The statement came on the day it was reported that President Vladimir Putin had drafted 160,000 men into the Russian Armed Forces, the country’s largest number of conscripts since 2011. “We take the models and solutions proposed by the Americans very seriously, but we cannot accept everything in its current form,” Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying by state media on Tuesday by the Russian magazine International Affairs. “From what we can see, today there is no place in them for our main demand, that is, the resolution of the problems related to the root causes of this conflict. It is completely absent and this has to be overcome,” he added, according to Reuters.
The comments come after the US president said in an interview on Sunday that he was “very angry” and “irritated” with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin after he criticized the leadership of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, questioning his credibility. At the same time, Trump also said that Putin’s comments were “not going in the right direction”, and threatened to put “secondary tariffs on all oil coming from Russia”.
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