President Joe Biden, on a call Thursday with President Volodymyr Zelensky, said no decisions or discussions would be made “about Ukraine without Ukraine.” The two leaders took part in a 90-minute phone call Dec. 9 two days after Biden held a video call with Russian President Vladimir Putin in which Biden told Putin the United States and its allies would respond “with strong economic and other measures” in the event of a Russian military escalation against Ukraine. Ukrainian officials have estimated more than 90,000 Russian troops are near its border and in Russian-occupied Crimea. U.S. officials have said the military buildup, along with a spike in anti-Ukrainian activity on social media, harkens back to a “similar playbook” used by Putin in 2014 when Russia occupied Crimea. According to a White House readout of Thursday’s call with Zelensky, “The leaders called on Russia to de-escalate tensions and agreed that diplomacy is …