{"id":244203,"date":"2022-02-12T12:20:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T18:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=244203"},"modified":"2022-02-20T18:08:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T00:08:42","slug":"putin-biden-conclude-hourlong-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=244203","title":{"rendered":"Biden warns Putin in hourlong call Sat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ap-sans-medium pt-0\"><strong>Biden warns Putin of\u00a0 severe costs of Ukraine invasion<\/strong>. From AP Feb 12, 2022\u00a0 6:00 PM<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-block\">\n<div class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\n<p id=\"story_summarycontent\" class=\"summary ap-serif d-block mb-3 p-0\">WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The White House says President Joe Biden told Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin that invading Ukraine would cause \u201cwidespread human suffering\u201d and that the West was committed to diplomacy to end the crisis but \u201cequally prepared for other scenarios.&#8221; Biden also told Putin the United States and its allies would respond \u201cdecisively and impose swift and severe costs\u201d if the Kremlin attacked its neighbor. There was no suggestion that the hourlong call diminished the threat of an imminent war in Europe. The two presidents spoke a day after Biden\u2019s national security adviser warned that U.S. intelligence shows that a Russian invasion could begin within days and before the Winter Olympics in Beijing end on Feb. 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary ap-serif d-block mb-3 p-0\">Earlier at 12:12pm &#8211; MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 The White House says President Joe Biden has called on President Vladimir Putin to pull back more than 100,000 Russian troops massed near Ukraine\u2019s borders and warned that the U.S. and its allies would \u201crespond decisively and impose swift and severe costs\u201d if Russia invades. Biden and Putin spoke for more than an hour Saturday. A day earlier, Biden&#8217;s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, warned that U.S. intelligence shows that a Russian invasion could begin within days and before the Winter Olympics in Beijing end on Feb. 20. \u00a0Russia denies that it intends to launch an offensive against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Earlier today:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-sans-medium pt-0\"><strong>Putin, Biden conclude hourlong call on Ukraine crisis\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Feb 12, 2022 11:14 AM<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-block\">\n<div class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\n<p id=\"story_summarycontent\" class=\"summary ap-serif d-block mb-3 p-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ukraineMap.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-244206\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ukraineMap-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ukraineMap-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ukraineMap-260x175.png 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ukraineMap.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>MOSCOW (AP) \u2014 Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin have concluded a call to discuss the crisis in Ukraine as the White House says intelligence shows Russia could invade on short notice. The White House says the call lasted 62-minutes. Biden planned once again to call on Putin to de-escalate and pull back the well over 100,000 Russia troops that have massed near Ukraine\u2019s borders. The White House says publicly that the U.S. does not know with certainty whether Putin is committed to an invasion. Russia denies it intends to launch an offensive against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden warns Putin of\u00a0 severe costs of Ukraine invasion. From AP Feb 12, 2022\u00a0 6:00 PM WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The White House says President Joe Biden told Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin that invading Ukraine would cause \u201cwidespread human suffering\u201d and that the West was committed to diplomacy to end the crisis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":244207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244203"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244221,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244203\/revisions\/244221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/244207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}