Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday stated the understandings reached at the Alaska Summit with United States President Donald Trump break the ice to peace in Ukraine, including that he had actually spoken about the result of the conference with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other international leaders.
Speaking at the SCO Summit in Tianjin, China, Putin likewise valued the efforts of India and Beijing efforts to deal with the crisis in Ukraine.
“In this regard, we highly appreciate the efforts and proposals from China and India aimed at facilitating the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis,” Putin stated.
“I would also note that the understandings reached at the recent Russia–U.S. meeting in Alaska, I hope, also contribute toward this goal,” he included.
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Putin even more specified that the origin of the crisis need to be dealt with and security balance need to be developed in Ukraine, including that efforts by the West to drag Ukraine into NATO are among the reasons for the crisis in the nation.
He likewise repeated that the crisis in Ukraine did not occur as outcome of ‘intrusion,’ however as an outcome of a coup d’état in Kyiv, supported by Ukraine’s western allies.