Trump invited to Russia – Lavrov
US President Donald Trump has received a formal invitation to visit Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has confirmed. During last week’s summit in Alaska, Russian President Vladimir Putin extended the invitation to Trump in person.
In an interview with the television channel Rossiya 24 on Tuesday, Lavrov stated that Trump “has an invitation” and recalled that during the summit, the US president had indicated that the idea of him visiting Russia is “interesting.”
During their joint press conference with Putin last week, Trump admitted, however, that he could “get a little heat” for traveling to Moscow. Nevertheless, he said he can “see it possibly happening.”
Putin and Trump met in person for the first time since 2019 in Anchorage, Alaska to discuss ways of resolving the Ukraine conflict as well as normalizing relations between Moscow and Washington.
Both leaders have described the summit positively, with Putin calling it “frank” and “substantive” and Trump hailing it as “productive.”
On Monday, Trump met with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, several European leaders and the heads of NATO and the European Commission to discuss the conditions for a peace deal with Russia.
Following the meeting, Trump announced that he had once again spoken by phone with Putin and said he would work to arrange a meeting between the Russian president and Zelensky, followed by a trilateral summit.
