Putin's official spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the statements from American President Joe Biden, who said that Washington sought to avoid escalation of tensions with Moscow, stated that earlier Vladimir Putin had expressed exactly the same position.
"You know that President Putin spoke about the expediency of building, normalizing and de-escalating relations. He speaks about it consistently. This is a firm position of his. He has repeatedly said that we are ready to develop our dialogue to such an extent. As far as our counterparts are ready for this, in this regard it is probably positive that the points of view of the heads of the two states coincide here," Peskov told reporters.