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    President Putin met with President Macron of France to discuss Russia's security demands in Eastern Europe and the possibility of war between Russia and the West. President Biden also met with Chancellor Scholz of Germany to coordinate a response to a potential Russian attack on Ukraine, showing the intense concern in the West over Russia's military buildup near Ukraine.

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    Vladimir V. Putin

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    President Putin met with President Macron of France to discuss Russia's security demands in Eastern Europe and the possibility of war between Russia and the West. President Biden also met with Chancellor Scholz of Germany to coordinate a response to a potential Russian attack on Ukraine, showing the intense concern in the West over Russia's military buildup near Ukraine.

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    President Putin met with President Macron of France to discuss Russia's security demands in Eastern Europe and the possibility of war between Russia and the West. President Biden also met with Chancellor Scholz of Germany to coordinate a response to a potential Russian attack on Ukraine, showing the intense concern in the West over Russia's military buildup near Ukraine.

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    MOSCOW — President 

    Vladimir V. Putin said he was prepared to keep negotiating over


    Russia’s security demands in Eastern Europe but offered a stark warning over the
    possibility of a full-scale war between Russia and the West — using a five-hour meeting
    with his French counterpart on Monday to keep the world guessing about his intentions.

    Mr. Putin said that proposals made by President Emmanuel Macron of France in their
    one-on-one meeting at the Kremlin were “too early to speak about” but could create “a
    foundation for our further steps.” Mr. Macron, in a joint news conference with Mr. Putin
    after their hastily scheduled meeting, described the coming days as potentially decisive
    in heading off what the West fears could be a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

    “We are in a situation of extreme tension, a degree of incandescence that Europe has
    rarely known in the past decades,” Mr. Macron said.

    The meeting came as President Biden hosted Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany at the
    White House to coordinate a trans-Atlantic response to a potential attack on Ukraine,
    underscoring the intense unease in the West touched off by Mr. Putin’s enormous troop
    buildup around Ukraine’s borders.
    Mr. Biden said on Monday that Western countries would take a “united” approach to
    rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine, and he vowed that a controversial gas
    pipeline project designed to send gas from Russia to Germany would not go forward in
    the event of a military invasion.
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    Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany and President Biden met Monday at the White
    House.Credit...Al Drago for The New York Times

    Mr. Putin appeared to relish the attention — and signaled he was prepared to draw out
    the mystery around his next moves that has turned the Russian troop buildup into the
    West’s most urgent crisis. The Russian leader is an avid geopolitical tactician, and
    Monday’s concurrent talks in Moscow and in Washington showcased his ability to force
    the West to pay attention to the Kremlin’s longstanding grievances over NATO’s
    expansion to Russia’s borders.

    But whether that attention will be enough to satisfy Mr. Putin is far from clear. Some
    analysts worry that his engagement in diplomacy in recent weeks is merely buying time
    for Russia’s military to make final preparations for an invasion.

    Mr. Putin said Russia was still working on a new written response in its back-and-forth
    with NATO and the United States over the security architecture of Eastern Europe,
    predicting that the “dialogue” would continue even though he said the West had ignored
    Russia’s principal demands.

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