Anticipation is building as Joe Biden prepares to meet Vladimir Putin at a Geneva summit on Wednesday, but there is no sign of a thaw in Russia-US relations. Putin, meanwhile, said in an NBC News interview aired on Monday that he would consider starting a dialogue. Also in the NBC interview, Putin refused to guarantee that the opposition leader Alexei Navalny would get out of prison alive. The summit comes after the disastrous 2017 meeting between Putin and Donald Trump in Helsinki . Sign upSign up for the US morning briefingFirst Thing is delivered to thousands of inboxes every weekday.

Source: The Guardian June 15, 2021 09:56 UTC