Key U.S. Senators to Meet Scholz at White House: Ukraine Update
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Standing alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington, President Joe Biden said the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will not go forward if Russia invades Ukraine. It was the latest in a series of diplomatic talks meant to defuse tensions over Moscow’s military buildup near Ukraine.
Separately on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron met Russian President Vladimir Putin for six hours of talks in Moscow. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the talks would be “substantive and quite prolonged,” but neither side expected a major breakthrough.