(CAMP DAVID, AFP = Yonhap News) U.S. President Joe Biden speaks by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the Ukraine crisis at Camp David’s villa in Maryland, March 12, 2017. As tensions between Russia and the West reached a climax due to concerns over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the two leaders talked for 62 minutes on the same day to discuss a solution to the Ukraine crisis, but it is known that no special breakthrough has been made. [백악관 제공. 판매 및 광고 금지] 2022.2.13 leekm@yna.co.kr
(Rome = Yonhap News) Correspondent Jeon Seong-hoon = Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to speak with US President Joe Biden soon, AFP and TASS news agency reported on the 13th (local time) as the crisis in Ukraine escalates.
“In the next few hours, President Zelensky will discuss the current security situation with President Biden and diplomatic efforts to ease tensions,” Zelensky’s press secretary, Sergei Nikoporov, said in a Facebook account on the same day. said.
It is the third official phone call between the two leaders this year alone.
This call is particularly noteworthy as it takes place one day following the one-hour ‘phone talk’ between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin ended without any breakthrough.
In a previous call, President Zelensky had asked the United States to expand defense cooperation and help Ukraine strengthen its combat posture. He also proposed a framework for trilateral negotiations between Ukraine-Russia-USA to relieve tensions.
Russia recently deployed 130,000 troops near the Ukrainian border, heightening military tensions.
Western countries, including the United States, have warned that Russia is ready to invade Ukraine at any time, but Russia has denied any plans to invade Ukraine.
Russia, however, has requested security guarantees, such as the withdrawal of NATO troops from Eastern Europe and a ban on Ukraine from joining NATO, and it is known that the United States has refused to do so.
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