Opening summit, Putin says he hopes for ‘productive’ meeting, as Biden says ‘it is always better to meet face to face’

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GENEVA (AP) — Opening their highly anticipated summit, Russia’s Vladimir Putin says he hopes for a 'productive' meeting, as U.S. President Joe Biden says 'it is always better to meet face to face.' It's a moment of high-stakes diplomacy at a time when both leaders agree that relations between their countries are at an all-time low. For months, the two leaders have traded sharp rhetoric. Biden has repeatedly called out Putin for malicious cyberattacks by Russian-based hackers on U.S. interests, for disregard of democracy in the jailing of Russia’s top opposition leader and for interfering in American elections. Their talks on Wednesday are expected to last four to five hours.