Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Joe Biden will hold talks by telephone on Saturday, February 12. This is reported by Agence France-Presse, citing a source in the White House.
“President Biden and Russian President Putin will speak on Saturday morning. Russia offered to hold a telephone conversation on Monday. The White House made a counteroffer for Saturday, they agreed,” a source told AFP.
The last time the presidents of Russia and the United States spoke by phone was at the end of last year. The first face-to-face meeting between Putin and Biden as leaders of state took place in June 2021 in Geneva.
As previously reported, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that there is now “a real risk of a new military conflict in Europe.”