Putin and Biden are set to have a phone call in the coming days in which Putin will demand NATO not expand eastward to Ukraine.
In an Associated Press report, Putin's foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said the two governments will announce the date the call will take place once they have ironed out all the details.
Ushakov said during the call, Putin will demand the creation of a legally binding document that would"exclude any further NATO's expansion eastward and the deployment of weapons systems that would threaten us on the territories of neighboring countries, including Ukraine." Thursday, at a summit in Stockholm, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov warned U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken denying Russia a say in the expansion was"playing with fire."U.S. president Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will speak on the phone to discuss NATO's possible expansion into Ukraine. Above, Biden and Putin meet during the U.S.-Russia summit at Villa La Grange on June 16 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Russia and Ukraine have remained locked in a tense tug-of-war after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and threw its weight behind a separatist insurgency in Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland, known as the Donbas. More than 14,000 people have died in the fighting.
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