Putin and Biden talked for two hours – RosSMI – UNIAN

Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden ended the conversation / photo REUTERS

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Presidents of the Russian Federation and the USA – Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, ended the conversation, which was conducted over a closed video communication channel.

The heads of state talked for two hours, writes RIA Novosti.

Earlier it became known that the leaders of states will discuss pulling together Russian troops to the Ukrainian border, strategic stability between Russia and the United States, as well as cyber and regional problems.

It was expected that after talks with Putin, Biden would call Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Read alsoUS drafts “damn tough” sanctions against Russia in case of invasion of Ukraine – CNNWe will remind, on December 3, Joe Biden said that he was preparing a set of initiatives to complicate the possibility of an invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops.

On December 2, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba announced that, together with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, he was developing a comprehensive package of restraining the Russian Federation from further aggressive actions against Ukraine. The package includes political and diplomatic pressure, preparation of tough economic sanctions in case of expansion of aggression and enhanced cooperation with Ukraine in the field of security and defense.

Blinken threatened the Russian Federation with previously unused highly effective economic measures in the event of an invasion of Ukraine. The US Secretary of State called on the Russian Federation to withdraw weapons from the borders of Ukraine, stop shelling in Donbas and fulfill the Minsk agreements.

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Ekaterina Prysyazhnyuk

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