- “Let me choose my words very carefully,” Biden said at a news with Macron before the State Dinner on Thursday night. “I’m prepared to speak with Mr. Putin if in fact there is an interest in him deciding he’s looking for a way to end the war. He hasn’t done that yet.”
- French President Emmanuel Macron has kept open the lines of communication with Putin.
- Macron said he would continue to talk with Putin to “try to prevent escalation and to get some very concrete results” such as the safety of nuclear plants.