Joe Biden writes in his memoirs that Donald Trump's team members asked him to sign a letter authorizing them to negotiate directly with Vladimir Putin before Trump takes office again. The Wall Street Journal. In his memoir, Promise Me, America, the former US president writes that he refused, "not wanting to give them carte blanche for what I expected to be some kind of capitulation at the expense of Ukraine." Biden describes the "nervous tone" of Russian President Vladimir Putin and writes that he "liked to go wild during meetings and pretend to be indifferent like a teenager." Biden also believes that while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's acting background "proved to be very good preparation" for a military leader, Zelensky "can be moody and stubborn in our private conversations, and not as evaluative as I expected."

Joe Biden writes in his memoirs that Donald Trump's team members asked him to sign a letter authorizing them to negotiate directly with Vladimir Putin before Trump takes office again. The Wall Street Journal. In his memoir, Promise Me, America, the former US president writes that he refused, "not wanting to give them carte blanche for what I expected to be some kind of capitulation at the expense of Ukraine." Biden describes the "nervous tone" of Russian President Vladimir Putin and writes that he "liked to go wild during meetings and pretend to be indifferent like a teenager." Biden also believes that while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's acting background "proved to be very good preparation" for a military leader, Zelensky "can be moody and stubborn in our private conversations, and not as evaluative as I expected."