U.S. State Department Spokesperson, Ned Price, said at a recent briefing, “We need to refresh the charter to address the challenges of the 21st century.”

U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken and Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba will meet in Washington, on November 10, to sign a new charter.

That day, the top-ranking officials will hold a meeting of the Ukraine-U.S. Strategic Partnership Commission.

Meanwhile, one of these days, CIA Director William Burns visited Moscow in order to let Russia know that the U.S. was closely monitoring the alleged build-up of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border.

As CNN TV channel reported last Friday, citing its sources, the U.S. intelligence chief was supposed to determine what was motivating Russia’s actions. According to CNN, during meetings with high-ranking officials in Moscow, the CIA’s chief tried to warn Russia against any plans for an offensive, stressing that the U.S. closely monitors all the movements of Russian troops.

According to CNN sources, after his meetings in Moscow where the U.S. official held talks with high-level Russian officials, Burns called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to reassure him of the U.S. support.

On November 4, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, Karen Donfried was dispatched to Kyiv, Ukraine.

At the same time, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that the White House warned the leadership of the European Union and the foreign offices of Germany, France and Great Britain about a possible escalation of the conflict in Donbas and an increased risk of Russian aggression against Ukraine. The warning was transmitted through diplomatic channels as well. In particular, Germany was called upon to use the gas pipeline Nord Stream-2 , which is still awaiting of the approval of the German regulator, as a lever of pressure on the Kremlin.

The Administration was called to provide Ukraine with intelligence and weapons to avert a new threat of Russian troops’ intervention. Following the visit of CIA Director Burns to Moscow, such a call was made by two U.S. Republican congressmen Mike Rogers and Mike Turner, members of the House Armed Services Committee and Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, in their letter to Joe Biden in which they urged the American President to provide military assistance to Ukraine.

“With the recent amassing of Russian forces on the Ukrainian border, we urge your administration to take immediate and swift action to provide support to Ukraine in the form of intelligence and weapons," the congressmen asserted.

For his part, Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Michael McCaul, urged the White House on November 6 to give additional military assistance to Ukraine in the face of the increasing military presence of Russia near its border with Ukraine.

The congressman said in his statement, “I condemn the Putin regime’s destabilizing military buildup near Ukraine, and I urge the Biden Administration and our European allies to strongly reaffirm their unequivocal support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. This support must contain additional U.S. security assistance, including lethal weapons, as well as clearly articulated and serious penalties that Russia would incur for intensifying its aggression further.

“Moreover, as I’ve been warning for months, an operational Nord Stream 2 pipeline would embolden the Putin regime’s aggression against Kyiv because Russia would no longer require Ukraine’s gas transmission system to export gas to Western Europe. The Biden Administration must therefore lift its dangerous waivers on critical Nord Stream 2 sanctions now and work with the transatlantic community to prevent gas from ever flowing through the pipeline.”

Ukrainian political analyst Viktor Kaspruk claims that the position of the American officials, cited above, shows that the times of geopolitical indulgence in Moscow have passed. And now the White House is ready for holding tough talks with Putin and his circle regarding the Russian-Ukrainian war that is now in its eighth year.

Kaspruk wrote, “The CIA Director while in Moscow was able, on the instructions of the U.S. President, to bring the message to the highest authorities of the Russian Federation that Moscow must end the war with Ukraine. If it does not happen, then new sanctions will be imposed on representatives of Russian political establishment who keep their property and financial accumulations in Western countries.”

In the photo: Russian military equipment near the border with Ukraine.

The newspaper Voice of Ukraine