Efforts to Arrange Trump–Putin Meeting Underway, Moscow Says

A meeting would be the first time U.S. and Russian heads of state have sat down together since the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022.

(Left) U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks in Phoenix on Feb. 19, 2020. (Right) Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a ceremony in Jerusalem on Jan. 23, 2020. Jim Watson and Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images

Moscow is working to arrange a face-to-face meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov announced on Feb. 22.

In remarks he shared with Russian state media, Ryabkov indicated that efforts to arrange the meeting have begun in earnest but will require “the most intensive preparatory work.”