Vladimir Putin will not send New Year wishes to US Presidents Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Kremlin said on Friday, amid a crisis between Moscow and the West since Russia’s offensive in Ukraine.
These counterparts do not send us any greetings. In fact, we have no contact with them. And given the hostile acts they constantly carry out, the president will not send greetings to them,” Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian presidency, told reporters.
On the contrary, Vladimir Putin has already sent Happy New Year 2023 wishes to various leaders closest to the Kremlin. According to a list published this Friday by the Russian presidency, Vladimir Putin congratulated in particular the Chinese presidents Xi Jinping, the Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Syrian Bashar al-Assad, the Venezuelan Nicolás Maduro, as well as the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.
According to the Kremlin, he also sent greetings to two former Western leaders, Silvio Berlusconi of Italy and Gerhard Schröder of Germany.
A telegram of condolences to Jair Bolsonaro
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to his Brazilian counterpart on Friday for the death on Thursday of Pele, a “remarkable man” and “illustrious son of the Brazilian people,” the Kremlin said in a statement.
“Thanks to his talent, his unique abilities, his beautiful, fascinating game, football has become the favorite game of millions of people around the world, including in Russia,” Vladimir Putin said in a condolence telegram to the outgoing president. Jair. Bolsonaro.
“I had the pleasure of communicating in person with this remarkable man and I will always have the best memories of him,” added the Kremlin master.
Three-time world champion and considered the best soccer player in history, Pelé died Thursday at the age of 82 at the Albert-Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo, where he had been admitted to treat colon cancer.
Source: BFM TV
