امریکی صدرجو بائیڈن اورروس کے صدر ولادی میرپیوٹن نے ہفتے کے روز یوکرین کے معاملے پر ایک گھنٹے تک فون پر بات چیت کی ہے۔
وائٹ ہاؤس کے ترجمان کا کہنا ہے کہ صدر بائیڈن نے ولادی میرپیوٹن کے ساتھ ایک گھنٹے تک فون پر بات کی ہے۔ دونوں صدور کے درمیان فون پر گفتگو 11 بجکر 4 منٹ پر شروع ہوئی اور مشرقی وقت کے مطابق دوپہر 12 بج کر6منٹ (1604 جی ایم ٹی)پرختم ہوئی ہے۔
بات چیت ایسے وقت میں ہوئی ہے جب واشنگٹن اور اس کے اتحادیوں نے انتباہ جاری کی ہے کہ روسی فوج کسی بھی لمحے یوکرین پرحملہ کر سکتی ہے۔
امریکی محکمہ خارجہ نے اپنے سفارت خانہ کے بیشتر عملہ کو یوکرین چھوڑنے کا حکم دے دیا ہے اور جمعہ کو شہریوں کو48 گھنٹے کے اندرملک سے انخلا کی ہدایت کی تھی۔ محکمہ دفاع پینٹاگون نے الگ سے کہا ہے کہ وہ یوکرین سے قریباً ڈیڑھ سو فوجی تربیت کاروں کو واپس بلا رہا ہے۔
اس سے قبل ہفتے کے روز فرانسیسی صدر نے ولادی میرپوتین سے ٹیلی فون پر گفتگو کرتے ہوئے کہا تھا کہ مخلصانہ مذاکرات یوکرین پرکشیدگی میں اضافے سے مطابقت نہیں رکھتے۔
فرانس کے ایوان صدر کے ایک عہدہ دار کے مطابق بائیڈن اور ماکرون روسی صدرپوتین کے ساتھ الگ الگ فون کالز کےبعد بات کرنے والے ہیں۔اس عہدہ دار کے بہ قول صدر پوتین نے ماکرون کو جوکچھ بتایا،اس سے اس بات کا کوئی اشارہ نہیں ملا کہ روس یوکرین کے خلاف جارحیت کی تیاری کررہا ہے۔ تاہم اس کے باوجود ہم بدترین حالات سے بچنے کے لیے روس کے فوجی انداز سے انتہائی چوکس ہیں۔
واشنگٹن نے جمعہ کے روز کہا کہ یوکرین پر روس کی چڑھائی ممکنہ طور پرفضائی حملے سے شروع ہوسکتی ہے اور یہ حملہ کسی بھی وقت ہوسکتا ہے تاہم روس نے واشنگٹن کے خطے میں ہونے والی پیش رفت کے بارے میں بیانات سے بارباراختلاف کیا ہے اور کہا ہے کہ اس نے نیٹو اتحادیوں کی جارحیت کے خلاف اپنی سلامتی برقراررکھنے کے لیے یوکرین کی سرحد کے قریب ایک لاکھ سے زیادہ فوجی جمع کیے ہیں۔ روس نے مغربی ممالک پرالزام عاید کیا ہے کہ وہ اپنی کارروائیوں سے توجہ ہٹانے کے لیے جھوٹ پھیلا رہے ہیں۔
US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Saturday, as strains over Ukraine arrived at a breaking point following comments by Washington that a Russian intrusion was fast approaching.
Biden addressed Putin from Camp David, the US official retreat in Maryland. The bring endured north of 60 minutes.
Biden cautioned that the US and its partners would "react conclusively and force quick and extreme expenses'' assuming Russia attacks, as indicated by the White House. He let Putin know that attacking Ukraine would cause "far reaching human torment.''
The US is prepared to participate in tact with Russia about the circumstance in Ukraine, yet is "similarly ready for different situations," Biden told Putin.
A US official, talking on state of namelessness, let correspondents know that the discussion was "proficient and considerable," yet that there was "no key change in the elements unfurling now for quite a long time."
It is whenever the two chiefs first have spoken since December.
Following the call, the Kremlin censured US "top panic" encompassing the Ukraine emergency, however said Putin and Biden had consented to proceed with the discourse.
The Kremlin's top international strategy guide, Yury Ushakov, said Putin whined the West has been furnishing Ukraine and that Kyiv specialists have been "disrupting" Western-handled nonaggression treaties to end a yearslong struggle in eastern Ukraine.
Macron, Scholz, Zelenskyy Likewise Locked in
The pioneers' call came as a few European nations have encouraged their residents to leave Ukraine quickly. On Saturday, the US cleared non-crisis staff from its international safe haven in Kyiv and keep a skeletal group in the western city of Lviv.
Russian Foreign Ministry representative Maria Zakharova likewise said Russian discretionary faculty would leave the country's Kyiv Embassy, leaving an "advanced" staff in the Ukrainian capital.
Before Saturday's call with Biden, Putin additionally talked by telephone with French President Emmanuel Macron. The two had met in Moscow before in the week to attempt to determine what is viewed as the greatest security emergency among Russia and the West since the Cold War.
However, a synopsis of the call introduced by the Kremlin implied that headway was not made toward diffusing the circumstance. Macron's office, in the mean time, said "both communicated a craving to proceed with discourse."
Putin took shots back at cases of an impending Moscow intrusion of Ukraine, considering it a "incitement."
The Elysee Palace said Macron had informed Putin that "true discourse" was not viable with a heightening of the circumstance in Ukraine. Macron talked with Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later on Saturday.
All political Hands on Deck
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken talked with his Russian partner, Sergey Lavrov, on Saturday, as did US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, as per the US State and Defense offices.
Blinken repeated that discretionary channels of correspondence would stay open, however, to keep away from struggle in Ukraine, Moscow would have to unmistakably de-raise its powers on Ukraine's lines, the State Department said.
Later on Saturday, Blinken said the gamble of attack was as of now sufficiently high to legitimize the choice to decrease discretionary staff in Ukraine.
"We requested the takeoff of the vast majority of the Americans still at the US Embassy in Kyiv. The gamble of Russian military activity is sufficiently high and the danger is impending enough that this is the reasonable thing to do," Blinken told columnists in the US territory of Hawaii.
The US has likewise reported it would eliminate 150 US military mentors as of now situated in Ukraine.
What is The Chance of Furnished Struggle?
The showdown among East and West comes as Russia has amassed more than 100,000 soldiers on Ukraine's lines. Right now, Russia is directing maritime drills in the Black Sea and military activities in Belarus along Ukraine's northern boundary. The Kremlin has said it has no goal of attacking Ukraine.
Adding to the heightening environment on Saturday was Russia's case that it had pursued off a US submarine that crossed into its regional waters in the northern Pacific Ocean. The US denied Russia's case, saying "there is no reality" to the allegations.
The taking off pressures over Ukraine and the chance of an outfitted clash on the European mainland are viewed as the best international test for NATO and Europe since the Cold War.
Zelenskyy Cautions Alarm Helps Foes
Regardless of the expanding signs the scales might be tipping toward an acceleration of threats, the Ukrainian president told writers Saturday he was amazed by the most recent round of alerts and takeoffs from Western states.
Zelenskyy said anybody with any data regarding an attack ought to illuminate the Ukrainian government. He said alarm presently would just serve Ukraine's adversaries.
"We see every one of the dangers," he said. "We comprehend that the dangers are there."
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