Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin face to face to address the Ukrainian issue and to negotiate on the release of US citizens detained in Russia? "It depends".
This was said by the American president himself, answering a question about his possible meeting with the leader of Moscow at the G20 in Indonesia.
"I have no intention of meeting Putin - specified the Washington number one - but if, for example, he came to me at the G20 and told me 'I want to talk about Griner's release', then I would see him. It will depend on what he wants to discuss", says Biden referring to Brittney Griner, the American prisoner in Russia.
Biden also spoke of the risk of further escalation in the conflict between Moscow and Kiev and the danger of the Russian military using nuclear weapons. "I don't think Vladimir Putin will use them ," said the US president, in an interview with CNN. "If he did - he added - the result would be terrible".
In the interview with CNN, the American leader also returned to condemn the "brutal acts" committed by the troops of Moscow during the invasion ( dozens of bodies, including those of children, have been exhumed in Donetsk in these hours, with signs of violence and found a prison-torture chamber).
"Putin committed war crimes," Biden said.
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Turkey: "Keeping the door of diplomacy open"
"We want to keep the door of diplomacy open". This was stated by Ibrahim Kalin, spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as reported by Sabah commenting on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. "Those who believe that there is no more ground for diplomacy are often wrong," added Kalin stating that "on the contrary, diplomacy becomes even more important in times like these", "when war is raging, as sadly it seems to be. happening right now ".
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Born: "Lukashenko accomplice of Putin"
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Stoltenberg. Stoltenberg also said that Belarusian President Lukashenko is Russia's "complicit" in this war and must "stop helping it".
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Crimean bridge: 22 thousand kg of explosives used
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"The explosive was hidden in rolls of construction polyethylene on 22 pallets for a total weight of 22,770 kilos - the FSB said -. It was shipped from the port of Odessa to the Bulgarian city of Ruse in early August". The expedition was organized on the basis of a 2 August contract between Translogistics UA (Kiev) and Baltex Capital (Ruse).
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Russian missiles against energy infrastructures
About 30% of the energy infrastructure in Ukraine has been hit by Russian missiles since Monday. Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko told CNN today, stating that it is the "first time since the beginning of the war" that Russia has "targeted" energy infrastructures.
According to the minister, one of the reasons is linked to Ukrainian electricity exports to Europe, which therefore "help European countries to save on Russian gas and coal", adding that Ukraine is trying to "quickly reconnect from other sources".
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