U.S. President Joe Biden has agreed to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin if Russia doesn’t invade Ukraine, the White House said on Feb. 20. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will first convene on Feb. 24 and Biden has “accepted in principle” a meeting with Putin following that engement “if an invasion hasn’t happened,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement. “We are always ready for diplomacy. We are also ready to impose swift and severe consequences should Russia instead choose war. And currently, Russia appears to be continuing preparations for a full-scale assault on Ukraine very soon,” she said. U.S. officials have repeatedly said Russia plans on invading Ukraine but so far that has not happened. “There is no invasion and there is no such plans,” Anatoly Antonov, the Russian ambassador to the United States, said on CBS’ “Face the …