Biden Presses Putin in First Call Over Cyberattack, Ukraine
- Call signals a change from the Trump-Putin relationship
- Biden also raised the jailing of Putin’s critic Navalny
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President Joe Biden held his first phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, pressing him on issues from the poisoning of opposition leader Alexey Navalny to the massive hack of U.S. computer systems that’s been linked to Moscow.
The Kremlin confirmed that the call took place Tuesday, describing the conversation as “businesslike and frank.” The leaders also talked about both countries’ willingness to extend the New START nuclear arms agreement for five years, according to a White House statement.