Kremlin aide for foreign policy, Yury Ushakov, has stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump could meet in November in China, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, if both leaders attend the event.
"If the leaders are in the same business, then it seems to me that they will inevitably meet and talk," Ushakov said in an interview with Russian broadcaster VGTRK.
However, he stressed that so far there are no concrete signals or plans for a meeting between the two presidents, while the APEC summit is still about three months away.
"We have to get there by then. Before that, we still have many major international events," he said.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that NATO and European Union countries will not be able to publicly distance themselves from military support for Ukraine and from policies that Moscow considers anti-Russian.
Lavrov said Russia would take into account the actions of what he described as "openly Russophobic elites" in Britain, Brussels, Paris, Berlin and other NATO and EU countries.
"They know what they are doing and are trying to publicly distance themselves from this in advance. It will not work," Lavrov declared.
