Biden, Putin to talk Thursday amid heightened tensions over Ukraine
ABC News
President Joe Biden will speak to Vladimir Putin on Thursday amid heightened fears of a full-scale Russian invasion of its neighbor Ukraine.
President Joe Biden will speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday -- their second conversation this month amid heightened fears of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The call, which the Biden administration said comes at Putin's request, is the latest effort to defuse those tensions diplomatically.
But tens of thousands of Russian troops remain near Ukraine's borders, and bellicose rhetoric from Russian officials and state propaganda have Western officials on edge still.
The U.S. and European allies have threatened unprecedented economic penalties for Moscow if it attacks Ukraine, nearly eight years after its forces seized the Crimean Peninsula and sparked a war in Ukraine's eastern provinces known as Donbas.
