Putin says wants cooperation with Biden

Speaking with U.S. television network NBC in an interview released by the Kremlin on Tuesday (June 15), Putin said that while relations with the United States were at their "lowest point in recent years" there were areas of cooperation that would benefit both countries.

Putin will meet with Biden as U.S. president for the first time in Geneva on Wednesday (June 16), at a time of the worst tensions in the relationship between Russia and the United States since the Cold War era.

Asked if he would consider a prisoner swap with the United States, Putin said: "Yes, yes of course."

Washington has repeatedly demanded the release of two former U.S. Marines being held in Russia. Paul Whelan, sentenced to 16 years in prison for spying, and Trevor Reed, sentenced to nine years for endangering two Russian police officers while drunk in Moscow, have both denied the charges against them.