Russia-Ukraine live updates: Biden agrees ‘in principle’ to meet Putin as invasion threat looms

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French President Emmanuel Macron's office said President Biden and Russia's Vladimir Putin accepted the meeting. The Kremlin said there are no concrete plans.

to meet, U.S. and French officials said — even as troops continue to gather near the Ukraine border, suggesting the window for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis is closing. While Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday there are not yet “concrete plans" for a Russia-U.S. summit, he added that dialogue among ministers would continue and “it is possible if the heads of states consider it expedient. A decision can be made at any moment.

The summit was proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron during separate calls with Biden and Putin on Sunday. Officials in Paris and Washington said the talks would go ahead only if Moscow doesn’t attack. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement that U.S. officials “are always ready for diplomacy. We are also ready to impose swift and severe consequences should Russia instead choose war.

The Kremlin said the two sides agreed on the need for continued dialogue between diplomats and political advisors, through the Normandy Format talks — involving France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine — aimed at settling an eight-year conflict involving Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. It said there was also a possibility of contact between the Russian and French foreign ministers.

 

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