Donald Trump og Valdimir Putin skal mødes en gang efter NATO-topmødet 11. og 12. juli. Det er resultatet af et besøg, som den nationale sikkerhedsrådgiver John R Bolton aflagde i Moskva.

Moscow and Washington will announce the time and place of the summit on Thursday. In Washington, Trump said their meeting likely would take place after a July 11-12 summit of NATO leaders he is due to attend.

Trump confirmed that Helsinki was a possible site. (…)

“A lot of the president’s critics have tried to make political capital out of theories and suppositions that have turned out to be completely erroneous. I think the president determined that despite the political noise in the United States that direct communication between him and President Putin was in the interests of the United States,” Bolton told reporters.

Deal struck for Putin-Trump summit; Helsinki a possible venue