.JoeBiden vowed to make it “very, very difficult” for Russian President Vladimir Putin to take military action in Ukraine and announced that his administration is putting together a comprehensive set of initiatives to curb Russian aggression.
of troops on the Ukrainian border and increasingly bellicose rhetoric from the Kremlin.
There are signs that the White House and Kremlin are close to arranging a conversation next week between Biden and Putin. Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov told reporters Friday that arrangements have been made for a Putin-Biden call in the coming days, adding that the date will be announced after Moscow and Washington finalize details. The Russians say a date has been agreed upon, but declined to say when.Biden did not detail what actions he was weighing.
Blinken this week said the U.S. has “made it clear to the Kremlin that we will respond resolutely, including with a range of high-impact economic measures that we’ve refrained from using in the past.”
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