Russia-Ukraine updates: US to ban Russian carriers from its airspace

Officials at the 'Élysée Palace in Paris briefed reporters on Tuesday following a call between President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron that lasted a little over an hour. 

While acknowledging Russian announcements and images claiming a partial troop withdrawal, French officials did not confirm that Russian forces had moved from the Ukrainian border but said that troop numbers "still need to be reduced."

"We found that we were in tune with our American partners," an official said. "The challenge is to assess the quality of the Russian announcements, concerning the end of a certain number of military maneuvers."

-ABC News'  Anna Rabemanantsoa

President Joe Biden will provide a status update to the nation on Russia and Ukraine at 3:30 p.m. from the East Room, the White House said.

Biden "will reiterate that the United States remains open to high-level diplomacy in close coordination with our Allies, building on the multiple diplomatic off-ramps we and our Allies and partners have offered Russia in recent months," it said.

The addition to Biden's schedule comes amid international questioning and skepticism as to whether Russia is actually pulling back troops Tuesday from Ukraine's border as the Kremlin says it is doing.

Ukraine’s national cybersecurity agency said Tuesday a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has targeted the website of the country’s Ministry of Defense and armed forces, as well as two of its largest state banks.

In a statement posted to its Facebook page, the agency said that the internet banking of the two banks, Privat bank and Oshchadbank were under attack but that some services were still functioning.

The agency said for now there are no risks to citizens’ money.

The Ministry of Defense and Ukraine’s Armed Forces’ public-facing websites are not currently accessible. The extent of the attack is not yet clear.

-ABC News’ Patrick Reevell

In a signal that the door to diplomacy could remain open, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke again Tuesday morning, according to a senior official with the U.S. Department of State. 

The two had already spoken on Saturday and agreed to connect again in the coming days, the official said, as the two governments have delivered mixed messages on the extent of Russia's military presence and intent on Ukraine's border.

Meanwhile, U.S. President Joe Biden had a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, according to a White House official, while U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has departed Washington, D.C., for Brussels for NATO meetings.

-ABC News' Conor Finnegan and Sarah Kolinovsky