PARIS, December 8. /TASS/. Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden may have cleared any misconceptions and made up for a lack of communication between the countries, potentially reducing tensions, said Caroline Galacteros, founder and director at Geopragma, a Paris-based think tank.

"It’s always good when dialogue continues. It helps to avoid misunderstandings," Galacteros told TASS in an interview. "Negotiations between Putin and Biden can help reduce tensions that, in my opinion, were harmful and dangerous, with each side expecting the worst from the other."

"Now Washington and Moscow can return to a normal tone," she said.

Galacteros believes that negotiations with the US can play an important role in resolving the crisis in Donbass, since "the Americans not only support, but also encourage the Ukrainian authorities to take action."

In addition, the current talks have become a good opportunity for Russia to once again clearly define its "red lines" regarding Ukraine's integration into NATO, she said.

"This would mean an obvious threat and Moscow's reaction is quite understandable," said Galacteros, who is also a colonel in the French armed forces. "I hope now there will be a kind of truce, a kind of a comprehensive agreement on the status of Ukraine from a military and political point of view, on its borders and regional autonomy."

She said Biden is looking to abandon a confrontational policy as counterproductive. "It only alienates Russia from the West and strengthens its ties with India, China and Iran," Galacteros said.

France, she said, should play the role of a connecting link and be a "voice of reason" in relations between the West and Moscow. Also, Paris should help to reduce the escalation regarding Ukraine, she said.

"Western leaders have realized that they need to perceive the world as it is and cooperate with the states as they are, especially on security issues," she said.

Galacteros used to do research and forecasting for French government agencies for a long while. She teaches at the Ecole de Guerre, or the French War College, and has written several books, including Manieres du Monde, Manieres de Guerre and Vers un Nouveau Yalta. Recueil de Chroniques Géopolitiques.

Russian and US presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden held bilateral talks by a video call on Tuesday. They lasted slightly more than two hours. It’s the fifth talks between the heads of state since Biden took office as US president. Earlier, the leaders spoke on the phone three times, and held a face-to-face meeting in Geneva in mid-June.