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In response, the Kremlin said that President Putin remains open to talks aimed at “securing our interests”. However, spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Moscow was definitely not ready to accept the US terms: “What did President Biden actually say? He said that negotiations are possible only after Putin leaves Ukraine.”
This complicated the possibility of a basis for talks, he said, because the US did not recognize “new territories” in Ukraine, which Russia illegally claimed as its own at the end of September. President Macron made it clear that he agreed with Biden that they would never require the Ukrainians to make a compromise “that would not be acceptable on them”.