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London warns about the trap that Putin can hide after a peace negotiation in Ukraine
The UK is wary of what Russian President Vladimir Putin might do if peace is negotiated with Ukraine, as he is not acting in "good faith". This was expressed by the British Foreign Minister, James Cleverly, in an interview published this Saturday by The Telegraph newspaper, in which he warned that Putin could take advantage of these negotiations to rearm his army.
According to Cleverly, there is a risk that "a ceasefire will simply be used by Putin to train more troops, produce more ammunition, rebuild and rearm his damaged forces," he said in an interview this week during the ministerial summit in NATO in Bucharest.
In this sense, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, has left the door open to talk with his Russian counterpart, although only if Putin "is prepared to look for ways to end the war," he said after meeting with the president on Thursday French, Emmanuel Macron.
The British minister warned in this regard that the Western allies must ensure that a possible pause in the fighting is not "used by Russia as a way of ensuring that the next phase of aggression is more effective than the current one."
"We must be very, very careful if peace negotiations, and I use the word peace in quotes, are started by Vladimir Putin," Cleverly stressed.
"At the moment, the atmosphere that I am perceiving in NATO is that Vladimir Putin has not been acting in good faith," said the minister, who visited kyiv at the end of November.
Questioned about the possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons in the conflict, Cleverly refused to "speculate" on that scenario: "The only country that has been talking about nuclear weapons is Russia, it would be a completely inappropriate and unjustified escalation," he declared.
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