The relationships between United States and Russia Danger of falling to an alltime low. The words of the past few days by US President Joe Biden, who described Vladimir Putin as a war criminal, apparently did not please the Kremlin.
After the immediate response of the speaker of the Russian Presidency Dmytri PeskovFormal diplomatic steps have also arrived today, attesting to an increasingly precarious relationship between the parties. The US Ambassador in Moscow was actually summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, John Sullivan.
The “near breach” between the White House and the Kremlin was certified by a simple statement from Moscow’s Foreign Ministry. “US Ambassador John Sullivan, it is said, was summoned to the Russian State Department and delivered a note of protest regarding recent unacceptable statements by White House Chief Joe Biden about the President of Russia.”
The next step could be Sullivan’s expulsion, a circumstance that would officially open a serious diplomatic crisis. However, there are currently no signs pointing in that direction. there convocation by Washington’s diplomatic representative is already a significant step.
The move certifies one voltage between the two parts is very high and has not been recorded for years. The linchpin of the discord is obviously the war in Ukraine. The USA has repeatedly described the actions of the Russian government as “brutal” and has always promised Kyiv its support in the form of arms deliveries.
Joe Biden then went even further in recent days, pointing the finger directly and personally at Vladimir Putin. The Russian President was addressed in a manner that drew an immediate response from the Kremlin. In fact, according to Biden, after authorizing the war against Ukraine, his Russian counterpart would have become the perpetrator of gross human rights violations that would have made him a “war criminal.
The spokesman for the Russian presidency immediately afterwards described the sentences uttered by Biden as “unacceptable. From here then theescalation which led to the convening of the US ambassador in Moscow today.
Disagreements between the two presidents aside, RussianUS relations have been very tense since December as highlevel diplomatic meetings between the parties failed to result in a political solution to the Ukrainian dossier. The US has repeatedly accused Russia of pushing for a longplanned war, while pointing the finger at Washington from Moscow for never receiving any significant responses to fears of the country’s enlargement. Born Eastbound.
The outbreak of war and Biden’s allegations against Putin did the rest. The protest letter handed to Ambassador Sullivan is, for the time being, the culmination of diatribes between Moscow and Washington. The tensions between the two governments could lead to a worsening of the escalation in Ukraine as well, since the prospects of ceasefire negotiations are gone.