President Biden and Russian President Putin have agreed to hold more talks amid tensions over a Russian troop build-up near Ukraine, the Kremlin says.
The Kremlin said Putin and Biden had agreed to hold more talks during athat focused on East-West relations, which have sunk to their lowest level since the end of the Cold War and are currently strained by the Russian troop build-up near Ukraine.
In a video released on state TV, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin had no particular grounds for optimism after speaking to Biden because of continued, and very serious differences between Russia and the United States over Moscow's so-called"red lines" which it does not want the West to cross.
Putin on Dec. 7 told Biden that Russian troops were on Russian territory and did not pose a threat to anyone, Peskov said.
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