President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are continuing to finalize plans for a potential meeting to discuss the Russia-Ukraine war.

Although the meeting would mark Trump’s first in-person meeting with Putin since his return to the White House, bilateral meetings between Putin and past American presidents were common early in the Russian leader’s tenure.

Here’s what you need to know about past meetings between Russia and the U.S.

Putin and Joe Biden

The backstory:

In 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Joe Biden met only once in Geneva. The Associated Press reported that Russia was gathering troops on the border with Ukraine, where large areas of land in the east had long been occupied by Moscow-backed forces.

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