Overview
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there are no confirmed dates for a meeting between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin.
- Peskov stated that neither leader has named a specific date and that planning remains at a substantive stage.
- He said there is currently no understanding of when the summit might occur and emphasized that proposals will not be discussed publicly.
- CNN reported that a meeting this week between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was postponed, a claim Moscow called inaccurate.
- Reports had pointed to October 23 as a possible date for the Rubio–Lavrov talks, which were described as preparatory for the summit, though their status remains unclear.