Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia is open to a constructive partnership with every country and will not isolate itself despite the difficult situation in the world, the Kremlin leader told the ambassador of the European Union at a ceremony in the Kremlin on Wednesday. that relations between Russia and the bloc have “seriously deteriorated” and that the EU has initiated a “geopolitical confrontation” with Russia, Reuters and AFP reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made it clear Wednesday to new US and EU ambassadors that their countries are responsible for the sharp deterioration in relations since Russia sent its military into Ukraine last year.

The ambassadors are among 17 who formally presented their diplomatic credentials to Putin in a televised ceremony in the Kremlin.

The EU has “initiated a geopolitical confrontation” with Russia, Vladimir Putin told the new European ambassador to Moscow, Frenchman Roland Galarag, on Wednesday during the presentation of credentials to foreign diplomats.

“The European Union has initiated a geopolitical confrontation with Russia,” Putin said during a speech in the Kremlin, noting that relations with the EU, Ukraine’s ally, “have deteriorated sharply in recent years.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin also told new US Ambassador Linney Tracy at a ceremony in the Kremlin that US support for the 2014 revolution in Ukraine led to the current situation where Russia and Ukraine are in conflict.

According to him, relations are in a “deep crisis”, which is “based on fundamentally different approaches to the formation of the modern world order”.

• “Dear Ambassador, I know you may not agree, but I can only say that the use by the United States… of such tools as supporting the so-called “color revolutions”, supporting in this sense the coup d’état in Kyiv in 2014 ultimately led to today’s Ukrainian crisis,” Putin said.