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Putin blames Kyiv for escalation, but says diplomacy should ‘intensify’
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Russian President Vladimir Putin prepares to leave a news conference in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 18, 2022. (Sergei Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin blames Kyiv for a military escalation in east Ukraine in a call with French President Emmanuel Macron, but says diplomatic efforts to find a resolution need to intensify.
Putin “noted that the cause of the escalation is provocations carried out by the Ukrainian security forces,” according to a Kremlin readout of the call, which adds, however, that the two leaders “believe it is important to intensify efforts to find solutions through diplomatic means.”
Putin also repeats a call for “the United States and NATO to take Russian demands for security guarantees seriously.”
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