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Prepa­ra­tions are un­der­way for a face-to-face meet­ing be­tween U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin, Rus­sia’s deputy for­eign min­is­ter said Sat­ur­day. It marked a clear de­par­ture from West­ern ef­forts to iso­late Moscow over its war in Ukraine.

Speak­ing to Russ­ian state me­dia, Sergei Ryabkov said a pos­si­ble Putin-Trump sum­mit could in­volve broad talks on glob­al is­sues, not just the war in Ukraine.

“The ques­tion is about start­ing to move to­ward nor­mal­iz­ing re­la­tions be­tween our coun­tries, find­ing ways to re­solve the most acute and po­ten­tial­ly very, very dan­ger­ous sit­u­a­tions, of which there are many, Ukraine among them,” he said.