{"id":1407964,"date":"2022-03-29T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1407964"},"modified":"2022-03-29T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T20:00:45","slug":"biden-european-leaders-skeptical-of-russian-moves-mull-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-european-leaders-skeptical-of-russian-moves-mull-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden, European leaders skeptical of Russian moves, mull aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-european-leaders-skeptical-of-russian-moves-mull-aid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1407964&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-29T132207Z_1_LYNXNPEI2S0OT_RTROPTP_0_USA-BIDEN_1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden boards Marine One for travel to Brussels\" \/><br \/>FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden approaches the news media before boarding Marine One for travelling to Brussels from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 23, 2022. REUTERS\/Leah Millis\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 29, 2022<\/p>\n<p>By Steve Holland and Nandita Bose<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden adopted a cautious attitude on Tuesday to Russian vows to redeploy forces around Kyiv as the United States and its allies began discussion on a potential new $500 million aid package for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking alongside Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Biden said the economic sanctions that have hobbled the Russian economy would continue while the United States and its allies monitor what Moscow does with its forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll see. I don\u2019t read anything until it until we see what their actions are,\u201d said Biden. <\/p>\n<p>Biden earlier spoke by phone for nearly an hour with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>He said the consensus among the leaders was to wait to see what the Russians offer.<\/p>\n<p>A White House statement on Biden\u2019s phone call with the allies said they reviewed efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to the millions affected by the violence inside Ukraine and those seeking refuge in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also discussed the importance of supporting stable energy markets in light of current disruptions due to sanctions,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The call comes amid peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul on Tuesday in which Moscow promised to scale back its military operations near the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Chernihiv and Ukraine proposed a neutral status with international security guarantees while maintaining its territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are clear-eyed about the reality of what\u2019s happening on the ground,\u201d said a U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. \u201cNo one should be fooled by Russia\u2019s announcement. We believe any movement of Russian forces from around Kyiv is a redeployment, not a withdrawal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A source familiar with the situation told Reuters that the United States and its allies are discussing another possible round of assistance for Ukraine that could reach a collective  $500 million.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. official declined to confirm the figure but said the United States was \u201cactively working on how best to continue our support for the Ukrainian government through security, humanitarian and financial assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden returned from Europe where last week he visited with top European leaders in person and attended a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit on the Western response to Russia\u2019s more than monthlong invasion of neighboring Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>Macron was scheduled to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Steve Holland; writing by Susan Heavey; Editing by Doina Chiacu, Chizu Nomiyama and Jonathan Oatis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden approaches the news media before boarding Marine One for travelling to Brussels from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S., March<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}