The earlier meeting of Russian and American leaders of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Hamburg is realistic. However, the exact date has not yet been determined by the parties. However, it is already known that the talks will be held without a traditional statement for the press, said the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov.

He told Izvestia that the possibility of such a meeting still exists. Despite the fact that on Tuesday, June 6, US Ambassador to Russia John Tefft told Russian journalists that there was no agreement on the talks between the presidents of Russia and America at the summit in Germany. Answering the question about the date and place of the meeting, Peskov also said that "there is no date".

So far only the conversation between the leaders of the two countries is foreseen, and no statements are being made for the media on its results, the Russian presidential press secretary stressed..

During a telephone conversation on May 2, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump agreed to organize a personal meeting within the framework of the G20 summit, which will be held in Hamburg on July 7-8.

The heads of the two states spoke on the phone three times: at the end of January, when the Russian leader congratulated the American president on taking office, on April 4, when Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin with condolences in connection with the terrorist attack in St. Petersburg, and on May 2, when the main topic Became the coordination of actions of the two countries in the fight against terrorism in Syria.

The leaders of the two countries also discussed bilateral relations, the fight against international terrorism, opposition to the "Islamic state" (IG, banned in Russia), the situation in Ukraine, the settlement of the crisis in Syria and the aggravation of the situation on the Korean peninsula in connection with the missile tests in the DPRK.

During the trip of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Moscow on April 12, Vladimir Putin received him and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the Kremlin. The meeting was held in a closed format, without representatives of the media, although such talks with the previous Secretary of State John Kerry always began with the part open to the press.

When Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited the United States on a working visit, Donald Trump received him in the White House. Their conversation was also held behind closed doors.

During the last years of the presidency of Barack Obama, the meetings of the leaders of Russia and the United States were held at major international summits and were of a spontaneous nature: they talked "on their feet" between the summit events, on the sidelines.