Trump-Putin meeting agreed for ‘coming days’, venue set: Kremlin

The Kremlin said on Thursday that a summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was set for the “coming days”, with the two sides already having agreed the venue “in principle”.

The summit would be the first between sitting United States and Russian presidents 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.

Three rounds of direct talks between Moscow and Kyiv have failed to yield any progress towards a ceasefire, with the two sides appearing far apart in their demands to end the more than three-year-long conflict.

Trump said on Wednesday he was likely to meet Putin face-to-face “very soon”.

“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 on Thursday by Russian state news agencies.

“We are now starting to work out the details together with our American colleagues,” Ushakov said.

The Kremlin said a venue had been agreed “in principle”, but did not indicate where the summit could take place.

“Next week has been set as a target date,” Ushakov added.