Putin after the Biden call: Protecting Our Country's Interests

Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, commented on the call with US counterpart Joe Biden, indicated that he had persistently defended the country's interests.

Putin stressed that if the US were to take new sanctions on Russia, it would permanently break relations between the two countries

In his last-year speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin again spoke to Ukraine after calling with US President Joe Biden.

The conversation focused on the next meeting in February, where the two countries will discuss Moscow's bid to have more security guarantees from the west and NATO on the eastern European borders. A request coming at a moment that the Kremlin has increased the presence of Russian troops near Ukraine.

Biden reiterated that the United States of America would impose new sanctions against Russia if there were to be escalation of tensions or invasion. A threat Putin responded to by warning Washington that such a thing would cause a complete collapse of relations between the two countries.

The Russian president stressed that he has persistently defended national interests, country security and its citizens. But Putin also spoke of COVID, adding that they had faced enormous challenges by learning to live in difficult conditions and to solve complicated situations thanks to solidarity. /abcnews. al