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President Biden agrees to a tentative meeting with Putin to discuss Ukraine

Biden has agreed to meet with the Russian leader "in principle" if Russia does not invade Ukraine, the White House said, but Russia appears to be pursuing plans for a "full-scale assault" very soon.
A local resident of the Ukrainian-controlled village of Stanytsia Luhanska, Luhansk region, gestures as she cleans up debris from her home after the shelling by Russia-backed separatists on February 18, 2022.
Updated February 20, 2022 at 2:53 PM ET

President Joe Biden is willing to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin "in principle," as long as Russia does not invade Ukraine, the White House said on Sunday night, after a day of diplomacy brokered by French President Emmanuel Macron.

The tentative meeting would be held after a meeting between the countries' two foreign ministers, which is set for later this week, said White House press

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