Putin told Biden he'd like to meet in person, Kremlin says
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with members of the government via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia October 5, 2021. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS
Russian President Vladimir Putin told his US counterpart Joe Biden that he would "really want" to meet him in person when they spoke by video conference earlier this month, RIA quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Sunday.
But Putin had no particular grounds for optimism after speaking to Biden because of continued, and very serious, conceptual differences between Russia and the United States, Peskov said, according to RIA.
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