President Trump has reportedly invited Russian President Vladimir Putin for a meeting at the White House according to the Associated Press and Russian state run media.
An aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin says U.S. President Donald Trump has invited the Russian leader to the White House, but the two countries haven’t started any preparations for such a visit.
Trump and Putin had a telephone conversation on March 20 in which Trump congratulated Putin on winning the Russian presidential election two days earlier. The White House and the Kremlin said at the time the two presidents discussed meeting in person.
The invitation comes just days after the United States expelled 60 Russian diplomats from American soil in solidarity with a number of other NATO countries. The expulsion was in response to Russian poisoning of a former spy and British citizen, in addition to a long list of other bad behavior by the Kremlin.