KHERSON, Ukraine, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to talks on a possible settlement in Ukraine but the West must accept Moscow's demands, the Kremlin said on Friday, a day after U.S. President Joe Biden said he would be ...
Putting on a united front in talks on Thursday at the White House, Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron said they wouldfor its actions in Ukraine but the U.S. leader also appeared to hold out an olive branch to Moscow while stressing he saw no sign of any change in Putin’s stance.
on Thursday on a $60 a barrel price cap on Russian seaborne oil, according to diplomats. The measure will need to be approved by all EU governments in a written procedure by Friday. Ukraine and the West say Putin has no justification for what they cast as an imperial-style war of occupation in which thousands of civilians have been killed. Kyiv says it will fight until the last Russian soldier is ejected from its territory.
After their Oval Office talks on Thursday, Biden and Macron said in a joint statement that they were committed to holding Russia to account “for widely documented atrocities and war crimes, committed both by its regular armed forces and by its proxies” in Ukraine.
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