What You Need To Know About Biden's Meeting With Putin
"It's always better to meet face to face," Biden said as reporters crowded into the book-lined room where the leaders will meet.
For the initial part of the meeting, which lasted 90 minutes, the two men were joined by just one top aide each, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. It was then opened up to a larger circle of aides.
The Russian president slouched in his chair for what became an extended and raucous photo op, with journalists jockeying for position. Biden sat up straight in his seat, positioned several feet away from Putin.
NPR's Franco Ordonez, who is among the reporters traveling with Biden, described a chaotic scene, with the pool of journalists traveling with the U.S. president initially barred from entry to the room. There was a lot of pushing and yelling and at one point, Ordonez says, a ฟรีเครดิต U.S. official tried to pull him through the scrum and into the room but "another non-U.S. security agent grabbed me and threw me back."