Putin mocks biden free#
Most of his formal meetings this week have started after noon, leaving his mornings free for consultations with advisers. Political analyst Fyodor Lukyanov said that recalling the envoy in Washington was not enough.President Joe Biden is using time away from summit meetings on his European tour this week for intense preparations ahead of his talks with Vladimir Putin, according to officials, as he works to avoid the pitfalls his predecessors faced in showdowns with the Russian leader. Putin at the time said recalling an envoy would be a "measure of last resort". In 2014, during the fallout after the annexation of Crimea, Putin refused to recall a Washington envoy even after then US President Barack Obama said that the Russian leader would pay for his Ukraine policies. Moscow last summoned its envoy in the US in 1998 over a Western bombing campaign in Iraq.
Over the past few decades Russia has rarely recalled its ambassadors. "Such statements are unacceptable in any circumstances and will inevitably sharply damage our bilateral ties," he wrote. Konstantin Kosachev, a deputy head at the Russian parliament's upper house, described Biden's comments as "a watershed moment" and demanded that Washington apologise. The US Commerce Department announced this week it was toughening export restrictions imposed on Russia as punishment for Navalny's poisoning in August. Washington's ties with Moscow deteriorated further over Russia's alleged meddling in the US elections in 2016 and more recently when the West concluded that opposition figure Alexei Navalny was poisoned last summer with a Soviet-designed nerve agent.īut the two countries have continued cooperation on issues of shared interest, including the Iran nuclear deal and the Afghanistan peace process. Moscow and Washington share a mutual distrust that flared after the Kremlin's annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014. "Certain ill-considered statements of high-ranking US officials have put the already excessively confrontational relations under the threat of collapse." The embassy warned that Washington had pushed bilateral ties to the brink. Moscow's embassy in Washington said ambassador Anatoly Antonov was set to depart for Russia on Saturday to discuss "ways to rectify Russia-US ties, which are in crisis". "It is clear that he does not want to get the relationship with our country back on track," Peskov said. Putin's spokesperson Peskov earlier on Thursday described Biden's remarks as "very bad." "And they will have to deal with it," he said. "We can defend our interests," Putin said. Putin said on Thursday however that Moscow would continue working with the United States on terms "beneficial" to Russia. In recent years Russia's relationship with Washington has gone from bad to worse, but there were calls in Moscow on Wednesday for Russia to pause diplomatic relations with the US after Biden's comments. His comments stood in stark contrast with his predecessor, Donald Trump, who was often accused of going soft on Putin. In the interview with ABC News on Wednesday, Biden said Putin would "pay a price" for trying to undermine Biden's candidacy in the US election in 2020.Īsked if he thought Putin was "a killer", Biden replied: "I do." "I'm saying this without irony, not as a joke."
There's a deep psychological meaning in this."
"That's not just a children's saying and a joke. "It takes one to know one," Putin added, citing a saying from his Soviet-era childhood in Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Leningrad. "We always see in another person our own qualities and think that he is the same as us," Putin said, referring to Biden's "killer" comment.
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