Biden to confront Putin over Ukraine in high-stakes meeting
ABC News
President Joe Biden is expected to warn Russia's President Vladimir Putin there would be consequences for invading Ukraine, a senior administration official said.
President Joe Biden was expected to press Russian President Vladimir Putin during a video meeting Tuesday that there would be consequences for invading its neighbor Ukraine, as Russia amasses troops on the Ukrainian border.
The call started at 10:07 a.m., according to the White House, and Russian TV showed Putin sitting at a table looking at Biden on a tv monitor.
During the meeting, the first conversation between the leaders since July, Biden planned to threaten "substantial economic countermeasures" if Russia prepared to proceed with a military invasion, a senior Biden administration official said Monday.
"What I am doing is putting together what I believe to be–will be the most comprehensive and meaningful set of initiatives to make it very, very difficult for Mr. Putin to go ahead and do what people are worried he may do," Biden told ABC News White House correspondent MaryAlice Parks on Friday.
