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Biden prepared to meet Putin to end Russia's war with Ukraine
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 02 - 12 - 2022

US President Joe Biden has said he would be ready to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin "if in fact there is an interest in him deciding that he's looking for a way to end the war".
Addressing reporters alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, he stressed Mr Putin had not yet done that.
The two men stressed they would continue to stand against Russia's war.
In response, the Kremlin said President Putin remained open to talks aimed "to ensure our interests".
However, spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Moscow was certainly not ready to accept US conditions: "What did President Biden say in fact? He said that negotiations are possible only after Putin leaves Ukraine."
It complicated the search for a mutual basis for talks, he said, that the US did not recognise "new territories" in Ukraine, which Russia illegally claimed as its own at the end of September.
President Macron made clear that he had agreed with Mr Biden that they would never urge the Ukrainians to make a compromise "that will not be acceptable for them".
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Friday that the time had come to work for a just peace for Ukraine, but it had to come through independence for Kyiv and not its surrender. "The Kremlin must now give concrete signals instead of bombing the population," he told La Repubblica newspaper.
Meanwhile, on a visit to Ukraine, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said there could be no peace until Russia stopped lying about what it was doing in Ukraine.
Speaking in Bucha, where Russian troops are accused of committing war crimes in the massacre of hundreds of civilians, he said: "There can be no way forward based on lies. There were atrocities committed here."
A senior Ukrainian official said earlier that between 10,000 and 13,000 of its soldiers had been killed since the start of Russia's invasion on 24 February.
Neither Ukraine nor Russia tend to release figures for casualties, and the remarks by presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak have not been confirmed by the Ukrainian military.
Last month, the most senior US general, Mark Milley, said around 100,000 Russian and 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed or wounded since the start of the war.
Speaking to Ukrainian TV outlet Channel 24, Mr Podolyak said Kyiv was "openly talking about the number of the killed". He added that the number of civilians killed could be "significant". He also suggested that up to 100,000 Russian soldiers had been killed since the invasion.
In a video address on Wednesday, EU Commission head Ursula von der Leyen said that 100,000 Ukrainian troops had been killed. However a spokesperson for the EU Commission later clarified that this was a mistake, and the figure referred to those both killed and wounded. Ms von der Leyen had also spoken of 20,000 Ukrainian civilian deaths.
After their talks at the White House, the US and French presidents issued a joint statement pledging "continued support for Ukraine's defence of its sovereignty and territorial integrity", stepping up delivery of air defence systems and plans for an international conference on Ukraine in Paris on 13 December.
President Biden's suggestion that he was ready to talk to the Russian leader came with a heavy caveat and his French counterpart said "we will never urge the Ukrainians to make a compromise that will not be acceptable for them."
President Macron was speaking hours after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov complained that European countries had offered nothing concrete so far in terms of mediation. "Macron, by the way, has been regularly stating over the last two weeks that he was planning a conversation with the Russian president," he was quoted as saying, while adding that Russia had not had any signals via diplomatic channels.
Mr Lavrov named former US Secretary of State John Kerry as the kind of figure who had in the past been able to solve problems and engage in true dialogue.
In other developments:
During a visit to Australia, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said Europe had to build its defence capabilities: "Europe isn't strong enough right now. We would be in trouble without the United States"
The Ukrainian military said Russia was using dummy nuclear-capable missiles to exhaust Ukraine's air defences. Russia was using rockets designed for nuclear use without explosive warheads, Ukrainian military experts said, suggesting this might be because the country has used so many of its other missiles in massive strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure
Another senior adviser to President Zelensky, Oleg Ustenko, accused BP of being entitled to hundreds of millions of pounds in "blood money" from investments in Russia. BP said it was no longer receiving any profits from Russian energy giant Rosneft
TikTok is hosting dozens of videos glorifying violence by Russia's Wagner group of mercenaries, according to a new report. The videos have been viewed more than a billion times, found US-based organisation NewsGuard. Tiktok said it will act against any content violating its policies. — BBC


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