President Vladimir Putin is ready for talks on security guarantees for Russia. He stated that "the Ukrainian crisis is only part of Russia's more serious security concerns. Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said this in an interview with CNN.
"First of all, President Putin has always demanded negotiations and diplomacy," Peskov told CNN correspondent Frederick Pleitgen late Monday night. - And in fact, he initiated the issue of security guarantees for the Russian Federation. Ukraine is only part of the bigger issue of security guarantees for Russia and of course President Putin is willing to negotiate," he said.
Note that the French Foreign Minister said Monday that everything is ready for a quick invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops, adding that Europe is ready to impose massive sanctions.
