Kremlin on Trump-Putin meeting and lifting of sanctions

Russian President Vladimir Putin could meet the US President Donald Trump before the G20 in July, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

"To start with we must fix the date and time of a meeting between the two presidents. Aides are working on this now," he said, adding that a meeting could happen before a G20 summit scheduled to take place in Hamburg on July 7-8.

At the same time, he noted that it's hardly possible to talk about any kind of deals over sanctions.

"We have seen a readiness to solve difficult problems through dialogue, which President Putin has long been calling for and unfortunately in previous years did not find a response (to)," Reuters cited Peskov as saying.