Preparations are underway for a face-to-face meeting between US and Russian Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said today.
Ryabkov said a possible Putin-Trump summit could include talks on global issues, not just the war in Ukraine. But he said efforts to organize such a meeting were at an early stage and would require "the most intensive preparatory work" to hold it.
"The question is to start moving towards normalizing relations between our countries, to find ways to resolve potentially very dangerous situations, of which there are many, including Ukraine," he said.
Ryabkov added that US and Russian envoys could meet "in the next two weeks" to pave the way for further talks between senior officials.
Representatives of Russia and the United States agreed on Tuesday to begin working to end the war in Ukraine and improve their diplomatic and economic ties, at a meeting in Saudi Arabia that marked a major shift in American foreign policy under President Trump.
No Ukrainian officials were present at the meeting, which took place as the besieged country slowly but steadily loses ground to outnumbered Russian troops, nearly three years after Moscow launched the invasion in 2022.
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