Trump to meet Putin in coming days, Kremlin says
Mr Putin's foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said the two sides are working on setting it up, and that a venue for the meeting has been agreed on and will be announced later.
It comes as a new Gallup poll found that Ukrainians are increasingly eager for a settlement that ends the fight against Russia's invasion.
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
A meeting between the two presidents would be their first since Mr Trump returned to office this year.
It would be a significant milestone in the more than three-year-old war, though there is no promise such a meeting would lead to the end of the fighting, since Russia and Ukraine remain far apart on their demands.
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