Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden consider meeting for a summit this summer
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden may meet in June, RIA news agency reported on Sunday, citing a Kremlin aide, amid simmering tensions between Moscow and the West.
The foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said a firm decision on the meeting has not been taken yet.
“We will take a decision depending on many factors,” Ushakov, the Russian ambassador to the United States from 1998 to 2008, was quoted as saying.
Separately, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, cited by RIA, said on Sunday that Biden’s proposal for the summit has been received “positively” and is now under consideration.
Russia’s Kommersant daily, citing unnamed sources, said Biden had offered Putin to meet on June 15-16 in a European country.
The Kremlin did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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Putin and then U.S. President Donald Trump held a summit in Helsinki in July 2018.