President Joe Biden will speak Thursday with Vladimir Putin in the hopes of defusing an unremitting crisis on Russia's border with Ukraine
Putin requested the telephone call this week for reasons US officials said were not precisely clear. Biden and Putin last spoke on December 7 in a video conference that ended with a pledge to restart diplomatic discussions -- but no indication Russia was preparing to deescalate.Since then, as many as 100,000 Russian troops have remained amassed at the Ukrainian border, despite warnings from Biden and European leaders of serious consequences should Putin move ahead with an invasion.
Instead, Biden's advisers believe it will be more fruitful to keep the negotiations private.Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will lead the US delegation to the talks, which are set for January 10, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. Biden and Putin are not expected to participate themselves. Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov will lead the Russian delegation.
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