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'There Were Jokes': Russia Celebrates Friendly Biden Call with Putin

'There Were Jokes': Russia Celebrates Friendly Biden Call with Putin

'There Were Jokes': Russia Celebrates Friendly Biden Call with Putin
Dec 08, 2021 1 min, 30 secs

The Kremlin endeavored to depict a video call between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and American President Joe Biden as a friendly chat between old friends – not the tense showdown the White House described – on Wednesday, noting the two spoke for hours and made several jokes.

The White House endeavored to detail to reporters a tense discussion in which Biden laid down the law to Putin in response to Russia’s expanding military presence on the border with Ukraine.

White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan calls on reporters while taking questions about President Joe Biden’s conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on December 07, 2021 in Washington, DC.

“President Biden voiced the deep concerns of the United States and our European Allies about Russia’s escalation of forces surrounding Ukraine,” the White House readout of the call between Biden and Putin published Tuesday read, “and made clear that the U.S.

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters that Biden “looked President Putin in the eye and told him today, that things we did not do in 2014, we are prepared to do now.”?

Kyiv has yet to respond to the discussion between Biden and Putin, likely due to the fact that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has scheduled a call with Biden himself for Thursday.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki talks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room following President Joe Biden’s conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the White House on December 07, 2021 in Washington, DC.

Biden – whose family has enjoyed questionable, at best, ties to Ukrainian oligarchs – has repeatedly snubbed Zelensky in his Russia foreign policy, ignoring the Ukrainian president’s pleas to sanction Russia’s Nordstream 2 pipeline and repeatedly putting off a promised invite to the White House.

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