Trump-Putin meeting to be held in ‘coming days', Kremlin says
The meeting would be the first between a sitting US and Russian president since Joe Biden met Putin in Geneva in June 2021, and comes as Trump seeks to broker an end to Russia's military assault on Ukraine.
'At the suggestion of the American side, an agreement has been reached in principle to hold a bilateral summit in the coming days,' Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov was quoted as saying by Russian state news agencies.
'We are now starting to work out the details together with our American colleagues,' Ushakov added.
'Next week has been set as a target date.'
Ushakov also said that the venue for the meeting 'has been agreed upon in principle' but did not elaborate on where it would be held.
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