US president says Ukraine using western-made missiles against Russia would not amount to Nato going to war with Moscow
US president Joe Biden meets UK PM Keir Starmer in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington. Photograph: Rod Lamkey jnr/The New York TimesAt a foreign policy summit on Friday afternoon, Mr Biden said: “I do not think much about Vladimir Putin.”
Mr Starmer flew over from London on Thursday for the working meeting amid escalating tensions with the Kremlin after the UK had indicated that the US had agreed to allow Ukraine to use Storm Shadow missiles to bomb Russia. Earlier, Russia announced it had revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats in Moscow on accusations of espionage. Moscow’s FSB domestic spy agency said on Friday it had acted on documents showing part of the foreign office was helping co-ordinate what it called “the escalation of the political and military situation” in Ukraine.
The Biden-Starmer meeting was called at the request of the UK, the White House said. After a short one-to-one between the leaders, no press conference was scheduled.
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