Kremlin tempers expectations for Putin-Biden summit in June

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with a cabinet members and high range military officials in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Tuesday, May 25, 2021. (Sergei Ilyin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

FILE - In this March 10, 2011, file photo, then Vice President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia. President Joe Biden will hold a summit with Vladimir Putin next month in Geneva, a face-to-face meeting between the two leaders that comes amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Russia in the first months of the Biden administration. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

FILE - In this March 10, 2011 file photo, then Vice President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia. President Joe Biden will hold a summit with Vladimir Putin next month in Geneva, a face-to-face meeting between the two leaders that comes amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Russia in the first months of the Biden administration. (RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin/Pool via AP, file)

In this May 20, 2021 photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of Pobeda (Victory) organising committee via teleconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia. President Joe Biden will hold a summit with Vladimir Putin next month in Geneva, a face-to-face meeting between the two leaders that comes amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Russia in the first months of the Biden administration. (Sergei Ilyin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)