Biden: U.S. and Russia agree to 'advance mutual interests'

U.S. Presidents Joe Biden said that the U.S. and Russia had agreed to cooperate and “advance our mutual interests”.

"The last thing Putin wants is a new Cold War," Biden told assembled journalists, emphasising that discussions were "positive".

"And I must tell you the tone of the entire meetings – I guess it was a total of four hours – was good, positive," he said. "There wasn’t any strident action taken."

He also said the discussions had spent a great deal of time on arms control and on cyber-attacks, where he had told Putin that "critical infrastructure should be off-limits".