White House national security adviser John Bolton said earlier that President Trump would meet with Putin this week while Putin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said both leaders are expected to have a “brief” meeting on the sidelines of the Armistice Day 100th anniversary.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told RIA news agency that Putin and Trump were bound to meet, but will not hold “substantive” talks because the multilateral format of events to commemorate the centenary of World War One would be an unsuitable occasion for such talks.