Russian President Vladimir Putin during a video conference with US President Joe BidenWASHINGTON, Feb 12 > US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin ended a telephone conversation that lasted about an hour, the White House said. )», — the message says. The conversation between the two leaders, already the third since the beginning of the crisis around Ukraine, started at 11:04 (19:04 Moscow time), the White House reported earlier. It was preceded by contacts between the two countries at the level of the heads of foreign and defense departments, which also took place on Saturday. Before talking with Biden, Putin spoke with Presidents of France Emmanuel Macron and Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
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