Kuleba sees no risks to Ukraine from Biden–Putin meeting

"We are well aware of the U.S. President’s stance. We do not see any risks of concluding any agreements behind Ukraine’s back at this meeting [with Putin]. We have made it very clear to our partners that we will recognize no agreements on Ukraine reached without Ukraine," Kuleba said at a joint press conference with OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ann Linde, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

He emphasized that President Biden's invitation to President Putin had been made amid the unprecedented escalation by Russia along the Ukrainian border and in the occupied territories in recent years and advised to wait for the meeting results.

"I want everyone to know that no matter what happens, no matter what scenarios happen, we will always stand up for the interests of Ukraine and will not accept any scenarios in which they will try to force us to do something. I think that recently we have proved by many actions that nothing can force the Ukrainian authorities – President Zelensky, the Government of Ukraine, me as a minister – to cross the ‘red lines’ of our national interests," Kuleba stressed.

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