"Putin has tried repeatedly and offered to resolve these root causes of the Ukrainian conflict. He offered this to the Americans — even before the Biden administration and before (Joe) Biden himself, he also proposed it to (Barack) Obama. We remember; it was 2007. It was proposed to everyone; it was proposed to the whole world. But we heard harsh refusals from the Americans to talk about this topic," the spokesman said in an interview with RBC radio, TASS reported.
Peskov added, "The Europeans' harsh rebuke that Russia should not interfere in European security issues and that the Europeans would sort them out themselves." According to the spokesman, this position "completely contradicts the principle of indivisible security".