President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will talk by telephone, with the US leader expected to offer Putin a 'diplomatic path' out of tensions around Ukraine. FILE PHOTO | AFP
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Russia, which annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, has demanded guarantees that NATO not take in new members or set up further bases in the former Soviet Union.