Putin-Trump meeting could happen next week – Kremlin | 7 Aug 2025 | Russian President Vladimir Putin could meet his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, as soon as next week, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told journalists on Thursday. A venue for the summit has already been agreed, he added. Expectations for an in-person meeting between Putin and Trump increased following a visit to Moscow by U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff this week, which the White House described as producing better results than expected. Ushakov said details of the proposed meeting would be revealed later, but an agreement in principle has already been reached that it would happen soon. Witkoff also proposed the idea of a trilateral meeting involving Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, which Moscow declined to comment on, according to Ushakov.