White House talks on possible Putin-Biden talk

There are currently no plans for US President Joe Biden’s phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a briefing, Report informs referring to TASS.

"As for a call or plans for a call, we do not have a plan for the president to call President Putin," she said, when asked about the possibility of a call between the leaders of the US and Russia following Friday’s telephone conversation between the two countries’ top diplomats, Antony Blinken and Sergey Lavrov.

When commenting on Blinken’s conversation with Lavrov, she said: "You heard him say <...> that we are under no illusions that Moscow is prepared to engage meaningfully and constructively yet so Secretary Blinken made it clear this was not about a return to business as usual. So we are, again, under no illusions," Jean-Pierre noted.