Tension in Ukraine: Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin will speak by phone this Saturday

The president of United States, Joe Bidenand its Russian counterpart, Vladimir PutinThey will talk tomorrow Saturday about Ukraine, confirmed to Efe this Friday a high-ranking official of the US Administration.

That source explained that Moscow had proposed a telephone conversation for Monday, but Washington preferred to advance it to Saturday, something that the Kremlin accepted.

Biden will receive the call on Saturday morning (US Eastern time) at the presidential residence of Camp David, in the state of Maryland and where he went on Friday afternoon.

This will be the first direct conversation between the two leaders since Dec. 30, when Biden and Putin outlined their differences on Ukraine in a phone call.

This time, the conversation will take place after the US asked its citizens to leave Ukrainian territory in the next 24 to 48 hours before the “clear possibility” about what Russia attack Ukraine during the Olympic Games of Winter, which are celebrated until next February 20 in Beijing.

Specifically, the White House National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, said this Friday at a press conference that there is an “imminent” risk of a possible Russian invasion and warned that this offensive could begin with “aerial bombings and attacks by missiles”.

This same Friday, on instructions from Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin gave the order to deploy 3,000 additional soldiers in Poland, so that there are already 6,000 US soldiers on the eastern flank of the NATO in Europe.

Tension has skyrocketed in the last month due to the West’s denunciation that Russia It has mobilized more than 100,000 soldiers on the border with Ukraine, something that has led the Russian and American governments to engage in a propaganda battle.

Moscow has repeated that it does not want a war with Kiev and that it does not threaten Ukraine, while Washington warns that the Russians could attack the neighboring country “anytime”.