US, Russia working on Biden-Putin meeting

The White House and the Kremlin are working to arrange a summit next month between US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Switzerland, according to officials. US national security adviser Jake Sullivan is meeting with his Russian counterpart in Geneva, the proposed host city, this week to finalise details, according to one official familiar with the preliminary planning.

An announcement is expected soon. The summit would come at the end of Biden’s first foreign trip as president, a week-long swing through Europe that includes a stop in the UK for a G7 summit of leaders of the world’s richest nations, and then a visit to the Brussels headquarters of Nato, the longstanding military alliance built as a bulwark to Russian aggression.

The Biden first administration called for the summit last month after the two nations were engaged in a series of confrontational actions.