WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden will travel to the United Kingdom on Wednesday, part of an eight-day trip to reassert the United States on the world stage and repair relationships with European allies.
It is his first overseas trip as commander-in-chief, which will end in a June 16 summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The White House hopes the face-to-face Geneva meeting will help bring some predictability to a fraught relationship that’s only worsened in the first months of the Democratic administration.
Biden wants to privately pressure Putin to end a myriad of actions, including cybersecurity attacks on American businesses by Russian-based hackers, the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and repeated overt and covert.