US, Turkey still far off on deal over Russian S-400 missiles

With less than a week left before Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets with Joe Biden for the first time since he was elected president, rumors are swirling of an impending deal on Russian S-400 missiles that would help salvage relations between the NATO allies and see the equipment placed under US custody. But diplomatic sources with close knowledge of the S-400 impasse, speaking on condition of anonymity to Al-Monitor, deny there is any agreement in place. 

“It’s the first I am hearing of this,” said a senior Turkish official. A Western official called the rumors “a bluff.”