Russian leader Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden are to meet in Geneva on June 16 amid the biggest crisis in ties between their two countries in recent history.
More recently, the White House linked Russia to a cyberattack against the global meat processing giant JBS.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has recently accused Hollywood of censorship and said the United States had taken political correctness to the point of “absurdity”.Moscow and Washington have in recent years accused each other of breaching security agreements, and one key arms accord, thePutin in June formally removed Russia from the Open Skies agreement that allowed signatories to fly surveillance flights and share results with allies after the US exited last year.
Putin has warned of a new arms race and made much of Russia’s next generation weapons that he says render Western missile defense systems obsolete. was jailed for 16 years by Russia for espionage. He has urged Biden to arrange a prisoner exchange and said in a recent interview he was victim of hostage diplomacy.
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