Moscow, Russia.
Russia this Monday regretted the refusal of the United States to conduct a public dialogue between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden at the initiative of the Russian President, following their verbal confrontation last week.
“It is another missed opportunity to break the stalemate in Russian-American relations that exists through Washington,” Russia’s State Department said in a statement.
Vladimir Putin had proposed to his American counterpart a public video conference meeting to discuss their many differences.
According to Russian diplomacy, “the US did not support Putin’s proposal”, which sought to “address the bilateral problems that have accumulated and the issue of strategic stability.”
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The Russian president launched this idea on Thursday afterwards an exchange of statements between the two, in which Biden began calling Putin a “murderer” and he replied “who says who is”.
In response to Biden’s comments, Moscow called its ambassador Anatoly Antonov to Washington for consultations. The Kremlin also denounced the multiplication of punishments against Russia after Washington passed new sanctions last week.
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“The determination to punish our opponents, especially the United States, continues to grow,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov told a news conference.
Since his arrival at the White House in January, Biden, unlike his predecessor Donald Trump, has shown great steadfastness to the Kremlin.