Biden will warn Putin the US will respond 'forcefully' if Russia continues its 'reckless and aggressive actions,' Blinken says
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Biden will warn President Putin against further"aggressive actions."Their meeting follows a string of major cyberattacks in the US that are believed to have originated in Russia.Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said President Joe Biden will warn Russian President Vladimir Putin against committing future"reckless and aggressive actions" when he meets with him in Geneva later this week.
"What the president is going to make clear to President Putin is we seek a more stable, predictable relationship with Russia." He added:"But if Russia chooses to continue reckless and aggressive actions, we will respond forcefully as the president has already demonstrated that he would when it comes to election interference, or the Solar Winds cyber attack, or the attempt to murder Mr. Navalny with a chemical weapon."
Aleksei Navalny, the leader of the Russian opposition, fell ill in August last year. In December, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Navalny had been poisoned using a substance with a"similar structural characteristics" to the Novichok family of highly potent nerve agents, according to
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