“Any spark, any unplanned incident or any minor planned provocation can lead to irreparable consequences,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian media.
In a last-ditch diplomatic gambit brokered with the aid of French President Emmanuel Macron, US President Joe Biden has agreed “in principle” to a meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin as long as he holds off on launching an assault that US officials warn appears imminent.
“We are always ready for diplomacy. We are also ready to impose swift and severe consequences should Russia instead choose war,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in statement. “And currently, Russia appears to be continuing preparations for a full-scale assault on Ukraine very soon.” Macron, a leader in European efforts to broker a peaceful resolution with Russia, also spoke separately to Zelensky, to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and to Biden.Blinken said that Biden was “prepared to meet President Putin at any time in any format if that can help prevent a war” and the US official said Macron had then conveyed the offer of talks to Putin — conditioned on Russia not invading — in his phone calls with the Russian leader.
“When tension is escalated to the maximum, as it is now, for example, on the line of contact, then any spark, any unplanned incident or any minor planned provocation can lead to irreparable consequences,” Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said in an interview that aired on Russian state television. “This new activity represents a change in the pattern of the previously observed deployments of battle groups ,” Maxar said.
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