The United States Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkenannounced that he canceled his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, scheduled for this Thursday after Moscow recognized the independence of the Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk.
“Now that we see that the invasion is beginning and Russia has made clear its complete rejection of diplomacy, there is no point in going ahead with this meeting at this time,” he said.
“Now what we see is that the invasion is beginning and that Russia has made clear its total rejection of diplomacy, it makes no sense to go ahead with that meeting at this time,” Blinken himself said, according to what he collects. CNN.
Blinken He already warned last weekend that this meeting would take place “as long as Russia does not invade Ukraine”, something that the president of the United States himself, Joe Bidenhas already taken for granted this Tuesday.
Biden said that the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, “It’s creating a reason to take more territory by force (…) it’s creating a reason to go much further.” “This is the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
Russia On Monday, he recognized the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk and hours later ordered the entry of the Russian Armed Forces within the framework of a “peacekeeping mission”, decisions harshly criticized by the majority of the international community.
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