NEW YORK: The White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday said that the United States President Joe Biden will meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Geneva in Switzerland on June 16.

The summit will take place shortly after Biden travels to the UK for the G7 summit in Cornwall. It will be his first in-person meeting with Putin since taking office.

Psaki said that the leaders will discuss the full range of pressing issues, as US sought to restore predictability and stability to the US-Russia relationship.

"There is not a meeting with the president locked in yet. Obviously, the president, our president invited him to participate in that meeting because he thinks it would be a good step forward in the relationship to de-escalate, to ensure we have a more stable relationship moving forward, but there is no meeting to confirm at this point in time," Psaki added.

Last month, Biden held a phone call with Putin, where he had voiced his concerns over the sudden Russian military build-up in occupied Crimea and on Ukraine's borders, and called on Russia to de-escalate tensions.

He had reaffirmed his goal of building a stable and predictable relationship with Russia consistent with US interests and proposed a summit meeting in a third country in the coming months to discuss the full range of issues between the United States and Russia.

The conversation came in the backdrop of Washington imposing sanctions on 32 Russian entities and individuals for their alleged interference in the 2020 US presidential election and the purported hacking of US software supply chain networks.

Russia has however refuted all accusations of its engagement in US elections meddling and cyberattacks.