Other statements by the presidential press secretary:

Russia and the US, in a conversation on nuclear disarmament, will not be able to abstract from the nuclear potentials of European countries;

Putin’s meetings with American negotiators are very important, always timely, and substantive;

Russia was, is, and will remain a reliable supplier of energy resources to world markets;

Russia is open to dialogue with other countries on the Arctic, but Europeans are against it;

Russia is convinced that the Arctic should be a territory of mutually beneficial cooperation between countries, not a zone of confrontation;

Russia highly values the US’s mediation efforts to settle the Ukrainian crisis;

It is important for Russia that Ukraine has a legitimate representative at the negotiations, ready to make decisions to end the conflict.