Updated On: 08 August, 2025 08:43 AM IST | Washington DC | Agencies
Venue to be announced later; no guarantee meeting would end war, as Russia’s and Ukraine’s demands are poles apart; Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said the two sides are working on setting up a meeting

President Putin offers a ball of the 2018 football World Cup to President Trump in Helsinki. File pic/AFP
The Kremlin said on Thursday that a meeting in the coming days between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump has been agreed on, as a new Gallup poll found that Ukrainians are increasingly eager for a settlement that ends the fight against Russia’s invasion.
Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said the two sides are working on setting up a meeting, and that a venue for the meeting has been agreed on and will be announced later.
A meeting between Putin and Trump would be their first since Trump returned to office this year, though there’s no promise it would lead to the end of the fighting, since Russia and Ukraine remain far apart on their demands.