Deal reached to hold Putin-Trump meeting in ‘coming days’: Putin aide

By Burc Eruygur

ISTANBUL (AA) - Moscow and Washington have reached a deal to hold a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump “in the coming days,” said a Putin aide on Thursday.

“At the suggestion of the American side, a deal was agreed in principle to hold a bilateral meeting at the highest level in the coming days,” Yuri Ushakov told reporters in Moscow.

Saying that authorities from both countries have begun working towards the meeting, Ushakov added that the two sides also agreed, in principle, on the venue of the talks and that details would come later.

Ushakov's remarks followed Trump saying Wednesday that there is a "good chance" he will meet with his Russian counterpart "soon."

This week US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff spoke with Putin in Moscow, just two days before hitting Trump's 10-day deadline for Russia to reach a ceasefire deal with Ukraine, as of Friday.

The summit between Putin and Trump would be the first face-to-face meeting between the serving Russian and US presidents since June 2021, when between Putin and then-US President Joe Biden met in Geneva.