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Biden and Putin head into Ukraine talks with scant room for compromise

Biden and Putin head into Ukraine talks with scant room for compromise

TOM BALMFORTH and TREVOR HUNNICUTT PRESIDENTS Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin have a chasm of mutual distrust to bridge when they hold a virtual meeting on Tuesday in the shadow of what the United States believes is a threatened Russian invasion of Ukraine. "A lamentable state," was how the Kremlin described relations ahead of the extended video conference call, which it expects to start around 1500 GMT/10 a.m. ET. Washington has accused Russia of massing troops near the border with Ukraine to intimidate an aspiring NATO member, suggesting it could be a repeat of Moscow's 2014 playbook when it seized…
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