London – Kremlin has confirmed Thursday morning, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, agreed a meeting, although a specific date or location has not yet been announced.
Putin’s advisor Yuri Ushakov said a “meeting between Putin and Trump (will take place) in the next few days,” and added that “work at the summit has now begun.”
Ushakov said that the special envoy of the White House, Steve Witkoff, had raised the idea of a trilateral meeting between Putin, Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but that the next meeting would only be between Trump and Putin.
“The place of the meeting between the presidents of the Federation of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, and the Kremlin will inform about it later later,” said Ushakov.
Witkoff met with Putin on Wednesday before the deadline of Trump’s Friday for Moscow to make pales with Ukraine or face severe sanctions.
TOPSHOT – (Archives) The president of the United States, Donald Trump (L), shakes hand to Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, before a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the Russian counter Ukraine.
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Trump, on social networks, suggested that the meeting between Witkoff and Putin was “highly productive.”
“Great progress was achieved! Then, I updated some of our European allies. Everyone agrees that this war must come to an end, and we will work towards that in the next few days and weeks,” Trump wrote.
Last month, Trump said he would impose additional economic measures, including secondary sanctions to Russian fossil fuel export clients, the largest of which are India and China, if Putin did not remember a stop the fire before August 8.
David Brennan and Shannon Kingston of ABC News contributed to this report.
