MOSCOW, March 15. /TASS/. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday he had no doubts that President Vladimir Putin would show political willpower to normalize relations with the United States, if Washington takes a constructive position.
When asked by journalists whether dialogue between Moscow and Washington and any normalization of relations are possible today, Peskov recalled that Putin "has always been in favor of building good relations based on mutual respect and readiness to take into account each other’s concerns."
"For several decades, President Putin has been bearing in mind our colleagues’ concerns, even the Americans, and had been asking to [them] to take our concerns into consideration. For 20 years, these concerns have been ignored and President Putin along with our country were faced with a fait accompli. When such an attitude is replaced with a constructive approach, I have no doubt that our president will demonstrate the corresponding political will," Peskov stressed.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in response to a request for help by the heads of the Donbass republics. He stressed that Moscow had no plans of occupying Ukrainian territories, but aimed to demilitarize and denazify the country.
Following this step, the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and several other countries announced sanctions against Russia individuals and legal entities.