(Finance) – The Russian president, Vladimir Putinstated that reaching a agreement on Ukraine is unavoidable. The West is “intentionally fomenting chaos, exacerbating the international situation,” Putin said in a video message to a meeting of defense ministers of the countries of theShanghai Cooperation Organization (Sco) and of the Commonwealth of Independent States (Csi). “The potential for conflict in the world is growing, and this is a direct consequence of the attempts of some Western elites to maintain their political, economic, financial, military and ideological hegemony by any means,” Putin added. As for the war in Ukraine, the Russian president acknowledged that “they persist problems logistics” in the military operation that are “far from being resolved”. Inferfax further reports that Putin added that in each case “the most acute problems” have been resolved.
The Tass agency also reports that the Russian president has threatened to cut production of Petroleum in case of imposition of price Postal Code and not to sell it to those countries that will adopt it. The decree responding to the price cap on Russian oil will be published in the next few days.
Putin said that any country that will attack Russia with weapons nuclear will be “wiped off the face of the earth.” The head of state said Russia does not intend to launch a preemptive nuclear first strike, but Moscow’s advanced hypersonic weapons ensure that Russia will be able to strike back strongly if attacked.
Meanwhile the Tass agency has reported that it is being ad Istanbul a meeting of diplomats Use and Russian diplomats. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov confirmed the meeting in Istanbul between representatives of Russia and the United States at the level of “heads of departments”. According to Ryabkov, the officials are discussing issues concerning “how the US diplomatic missions work in the Russian Federation and the Russian Federation in the United States”.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peshkov, in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper taken up by Interfax, stressed that the talks between Russia and the United States on the exchange of Viktor But with Brittney Griner “concerned exclusively” this issue “and it is wrong to draw hypothetical conclusions that this could be a step towards overcoming the crisis we currently have in bilateral relations”. According to Peskov, relations between the two countries “continue to remain as one state sad“.