WASHINGTON – The president of the United States, Joe Biden, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, will talk on Saturday about Ukraine, a high-ranking official of the US Administration confirmed to Efe this Friday.
This source explained that Moscow had proposed a telephone conversation for Monday, but Washington preferred to advance it to Saturday, something that the Kremlin accepted.
Biden will receive the call on Saturday morning, local time. from the eastern United States, at the presidential residence of Camp David, in the state of Maryland and where he went on Friday afternoon.
This will be the first direct conversation between the two leaders since December 30, when Biden and Putin have already made their differences on Ukraine clear in a phone call.
This time, the conversation will take place after the US asked its citizens to leave Ukrainian territory in the next 24 at 48 hours due to the “clear possibility” that Russia will attack Ukraine during the Winter Olympics, which are held until next 20 in February in Beijing.
Specifically, the White House national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said this Friday at a conference press that there is an “imminent” risk of a possible Russian invasion and warned that this offensive could begin with “aerial bombardments and missile attacks”.
This same Friday, on the instructions of Biden, the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, gave the order to deploy 3 to Poland, additional soldiers, so there are already 6,000 US military on NATO’s eastern flank in Europe.
The tension has skyrocketed in the last month due to the West’s claim that Russia has mobilized more than 100,000 soldiers on the border with Ukraine, something that has led governments Russian and American to engage in a propaganda battle.
Moscow has repeated that it does not want a war with Kiev and that it does not threaten Ukraine, while Washington warns that the Russians could attack the neighboring country ” anytime”.