Biden Agrees to Summit With Putin to Avert Russian Invasion of Ukraine

As the U.S. warned of an imminent Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine, President Biden agreed to fulfill his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, right after a flurry of calls from French President Emmanuel Macron that sought a diplomatic alternative to the crisis.

Mr. Macron, in the simply call with his American counterpart, proposed a summit between Presidents Biden and Putin and then a conference with other governments on security and strategic steadiness in Europe, the French president’s office claimed in a assertion. Mr. Biden and Mr. Putin have accepted the basic principle of this sort of a summit, Mr. Macron’s business reported.