Biden meets Putin at Geneva summit first face-to-face meeting warns of ransomware consequences

President Biden holds a three-and-a-half-hour summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Villa la Grange in Geneva, Switzerland. It is the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders since Biden took office. The leaders agree to return their respective ambassadors to each other's capitals, begin dialogues on nuclear arms control and cybersecurity, and discuss stability in Ukraine, the imprisonment of Alexei Navalny, and American detainees. Biden declines a joint press conference afterward to avoid handing Putin a propaganda moment. Biden tells reporters he warned Putin about the consequences of any future ransomware attacks against American infrastructure.