The planned meeting, which Biden said would be formally announced by Friday and include "at least four of our major NATO allies and Russia," is expected to "discuss the future of Russia's concerns relative to NATO writ large" and aimed at "bringing down the temperature along the Eastern Front." The plans for talks come a day after Biden's video call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during which the two leaders brought up a range of security-related issues, including escalating tensions over Ukraine, cybersecurity, and strategic stability.
"We have found a way to have discussions at the height of the Cold War and we've done this in the post-Cold War era through the NATO-Russia Council, the [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe] and other mechanisms. We can do that going forward," she said.