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The United States

will only resume diplomatic contacts with

in the

crisis if Russia changes its attitude.

This was explained by the Secretary of State of that country,

at a joint press conference with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister,

in

For this reason, the US has

between the top diplomatic representatives of both countries, Blinken and

"Clearly, the idea of ​​meeting with Minister Lavrov to pursue the diplomatic route does not make sense, because Russia has rejected diplomacy," Blinken said.

"But as long as we can do something to prevent something even worse, affecting the whole of Ukraine, including its capital, and causing a horrific cost to the Ukrainian people, we will always try."

The message that Washington sends, therefore, is that contacts will only be resumed in the event that

carries out some type of measure that indicates a relaxation of its position.

It is a possibility that today is remote.

has sent all kinds of heavy weapons to his 'colonies' in eastern Ukraine, and now it only seems a matter of time before the Russian dictator concocts an alleged attack by the Ukrainian

to launch a brutal attack on that country.

Russia has 75% of its conventional forces - that is, non-nuclear - on the border with Ukraine, with which that country is surrounded.

In the event that Moscow gives the order to attack, the Ukrainian resistance, no matter how high their morale, will collapse immediately.

In the same appearance, Kuleva insisted on the message of the Government of Ukraine that there will be no capitulation.

The foreign minister of that country declared that Kiev has two plans.

is

diplomacy.

"

fight for every inch of our land, for every city and village."

The statements by Blinken and Kuleva came just two hours after US President

announced his country's measures against Russia for this second invasion of Ukraine.

Among them is sending more soldiers to the

to protect them from a possible Russian attack.

The military will come from the more than 60,000 that Washington has in

Biden did not specify how many troops will be sent, or when the deployment will take place.

The Baltic States

are independent nations that the

illegally annexed at the end of

and that are currently part of

The

has detachments in them, with troops from different countries -including Spain- to protect them

a possible Russian invasion like the one taking place in Ukraine.

In addition, Biden announced a series of economic measures in retaliation for the Russian invasion.

The president of the United States prohibited his country's financial entities from processing operations of two Russian public financial entities controlled by Putin's circle of power: the Russian state development agency,

a bank entity controlled by the

of the country.

By choosing both banks, the

has hit financial institutions controlled by the elite around Putin.

In the coming days it is expected that there will be more sanctions against individuals from the orbit of the Russian dictator.

The big question is whether Putin himself will be among those sanctioned.

Biden also announced that

That, according to the president, means that "we have cut off the Russian government's access to funding from the West."

Moscow, he said, "will not be able to finance itself in the West or negotiate its debt in our markets or in the European markets."

It is, in reality, a much less relevant measure than the president's rhetoric suggests.

The reason is that Russia hardly has any debt.

Its debt-to-GDP ratio is barely 20%, largely because the Putin government has made a tremendous effort not to depend on foreign financing and thus strengthen its invulnerability to sanctions.

It is the "fortress economy", as it has been called,

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