MOSCOW. Feb 9 (Interfax) - Russian-U.S. relations have found themselves in an unprecedented crisis, with no improvements yet in sight, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
"As a result, we are dealing with the most profound, unprecedented crisis in Russian-U.S. relations. The administration [of U.S. President Joe Biden] has driven them into a deadlock. The dialogue has been strictly fragmentary, addressing a handful of subjects, while every other area has been frozen for political reasons," Ryabkov said at a press conference in Moscow on Thursday.
"The assumptions of our U.S. vis-a-vis that the shortest way to diplomacy is further supplies of weapons and the strengthening of Ukraine's positions on the battlefield are so absurd by their twisted logic that I believe they do not require any separate, additional analysis," he said.
"We do not see any readiness even for an alternative view of the ongoing events, not to mention any change of this behavioral model," Ryabkov said.
"So, at this point, today, I do not see any prospects for launching a productive political, political-diplomatic process," he said.