The U.S. and Russia will return their ambassadors to Moscow and D.C., respectively, following President Joe Biden’s summit with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday.
The ambassadors’ return was an anticipated matter of dialogue on the summit in Geneva. Russia’s U.S. ambassador, Anatoly Antonov, was known as again by the Kremlin in March after Biden known as Putin a “killer.” The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, left Moscow in April, publicly stating that the rationale for his return to the U.S. was “consultations” with American officers. His departure from Russia got here after the U.S. imposed sanctions on Russia and expelled 10 Russian diplomats — and Russia, in flip, expelled 10 U.S. diplomats.
“The 2 ambassadors, we agreed, ought to return to their posts and take up their capabilities,” Putin mentioned at a Wednesday information convention immediately following the summit. “It’s a technical query as to precisely when that can occur — tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or no matter.”