White House Press Secretary Jen Psakia during a briefing at the White House. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 14The White House believes that US President Joe Biden's statement about «genocide» in Ukraine cannot harm the prospects for peace talks and does not affect the position of the States on resolving the situation, said US administration spokeswoman Jen Psaki. She explained that Biden's words, which in Tuesday twice called the actions of Russian forces «genocide», reflecting his vision of the situation on the ground and the view that Russian President Vladimir Putin «is trying to erase the very idea of being Ukrainian.» Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on US President Joe Biden's statement about the «genocide» of Ukrainians, said that the Kremlin considers such attempts to distort the situation unacceptable. «It is unlikely that President Putin will decide not to participate in peace negotiations because of the words, voiced by the President of the United States. He will decide to participate in them if it is in his interests,» Psaki said. She added that the American administration will always support the Ukrainian authorities in the negotiation efforts. «Peace negotiations … we will always support The President, Secretary of State, National Security Adviser will always support. And we support Ukrainians in these efforts,” Psaki said. «.
The United States intends to provide the Armed Forces with more intelligence, media reportsRussia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. Against the backdrop of hostilities in a large number of cities and villages of Ukraine, a humanitarian catastrophe is taking shape. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation lays responsibility for this on the Kiev authorities, who refuse to coordinate the work of humanitarian corridors, as well as local nationalists, in some cases, according to the military department, holding civilians as human shields.
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