He added that the action against the diplomat “was not provoked, we consider it an escalatory step and we study our response.”
“Now more than ever it is crucial that our countries have the necessary diplomatic personnel in place to facilitate communication between our governments,” he said.
Biden insists on the risk of an invasion, Russia denies it
US President Joe Biden said Thursday that the risk of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is “very high,” despite Moscow’s claim of more troop withdrawals from the border.
An attack is possible in “the next few days,” Biden said before leaving the White House for a few-hour trip to Ohio, adding that he has no plans to call Russian President Vladimir Putin.
For its part, Russia reaffirmed that it is not planning any invasion of Ukraine, as Western countries accuse, given the deployment of more than 100,000 Russian soldiers on the border with Ukraine.
“No ‘Russian invasion’ of Ukraine is planned, as US officials and their allies have been announcing since last fall,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday, according to information published by Russian agencies, in response to Washington’s proposals. on negotiations on security in Europe.
Joe Biden warned that there is still a possibility of Russia invading Ukraine
However, Russian diplomacy threatened to react, including the military option, in case the United States rejects its main security demands, and reiterated that it wants the withdrawal of US forces from Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic States. .
“If there is no willingness on the part of the United States to understand each other on the legal guarantees for our security (…) Russia will be forced to act, especially applying measures of a military and technical nature,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said. in its response to US proposals on European security.
With information from AFP and EFE