Ukraine-Russia, White House: “There will be no Biden-Putin meeting”

A meeting between US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently not scheduled. The White House spokesman Jen Psaki said overnight, explaining that the US “will never completely close the door to diplomacy”, but that a change of attitude on the part of Russia is needed. The details of a possible meeting between the two presidents, Psaki said, should have been discussed between the heads of the two diplomacies, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who were supposed to meet on Thursday, but their conversation was deleted. Read also