French President Emmanuel Macron — who spoke separately with Putin and Biden on Sunday — said that both leaders accepted the idea of the summit, though the precise details have yet to be agreed upon.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday agreed “in principle” to hold a summit on Ukraine as global fears of a war involving the two nuclear-armed powers remain high., the office of Macron for brokering the diplomatic effort.
“If he can get Putin and Biden to meet, if he can stop a war in Ukraine, he will be a hero,” Benjamin wrote in a Twitter post.late Sunday that Biden “accepted in principle a meeting with President Putin,” which could take place following a scheduled meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Europe later this week.
But preparations for a summit will only move forward if a Russian invasion of Ukraine “hasn’t happened,” the White House said, adding that it is “ready to impose swift and severe consequences” in the event of an invasion.
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