Russian leader Vladimir Putin will hold talks with US President Donald Trump as early as next week, the Kremlin said on Thursday, a day before the expiry of Trump’s 10-day deadline for Moscow to agree a ceasefire or face additional sanctions.
The announcement of the first in-person meeting since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine came a day after Putin met Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow for talks that both sides described as productive.
“At the suggestion of the American side, an agreement was, in principle, reached upon holding a bilateral meeting at the highest level in the coming days, that is, a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump,” Putin aide Yury Ushakov told reporters, according to state news agency Tass.