Washington — President Biden has agreed “in principle” to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the near future, provided Russia has not invaded Ukraine, the White House announced Sunday night. The exact timing and location of such a meeting have not been determined, but if it does happen, it would be sometime after a meeting scheduled for this week between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
But the U.S. has intelligence that Russian commanders have received orders to proceed with an invasion of Ukraine, with commanders on the ground making specific plans for how they would maneuver in their sectors of the battlefield, a U.S. official told CBS News.
The orders don’t mean an invasion is certain, the official said, as the final decision is Putin’s to make.
After weeks of warning that an invasion of Ukraine was…
