White House building in Washington DC. File photoWASHINGTON, Feb. 12 Russia has agreed to a US request for a telephone conversation between the presidents of the two countries on Saturday, although it itself offered to organize it on Monday, the White House said. It confirmed that the conversation between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden will take place on Saturday morning Washington time.
"President Biden and Russian President Putin will speak on Saturday morning. The Russians offered to call on Monday. The United States, in turn, proposed Saturday, and the Russians agreed with this", — said in a message distributed by the journalistic pool of the White House.
Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the presidents of the Russian Federation and the United States, on the initiative The American side is planning to have a telephone conversation on Saturday, February 12. He stressed that «the request was preceded by a written request from the American side.» Biden himself during the conversation will probably be at his country residence Camp David, where he flew the day before by helicopter from the White House.
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