2018 Russia–United States summit

1 month ago - The summit was officially called the #HELSINKI2018 Meeting by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was hosted by the president of Finland Sauli Niinistö. The summit took place in the Presidential Palace and marked the first official meeting between the leaders after previous unofficial talks between Trump and Putin at the G20 Hamburg and APEC Vietnam summits held in 2017....

August 13, 2025 - The first official in-person meeting between the two world leaders took place at the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017. This highly anticipated meeting lasted for more than two hours, with President Trump confronting ...

August 14, 2025 - Their first meeting came in July 2017, at a G20 summit in Germany. It was just months after Trump entered the White House, while Putin already had decades of political experience under his belt.

July 21, 2022 - The meeting took place at Trump Tower, in the midst of the presidential campaign in June 2016. (Last week, prosecutors charged Veselnitskaya with obstruction of justice in the context of a money laundering probe.

1 week ago - It was the first meeting between Trump and Putin since Trump was reelected in 2024, the first between them as sitting presidents since their last meeting in 2019 in Osaka, their first summit since the 2018 Helsinki Summit, and the first meeting ...

April 25, 2025 - Trump: “If I’m president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours.” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins: “How would you settle that war in one day?” Trump: “First, I’ll meet with Putin, I’ll meet with Zelensky. They both have weaknesses and they both have strengths.

August 15, 2025 - Mr. Putin did not attend. Soon after he formally announced a run for the White House in 2015, Mr. Trump told reporters in July that he would “get along very well with Vladimir Putin.”

July 7, 2017 - The German government released a video of world leaders shaking hands at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017, including the first meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

2 days ago - Writing on Truth Social an hour before he is due to speak with Zelensky, Trump said: 'I just had a good and very productive telephone call with President Putin of Russia prior to my meeting.'

November 19, 2017 - According to Andrew and Gordievsky’s book Comrade Kryuchkov’s Instructions, targets who failed to meet these criteria were classified as “confidential contacts.” The Russian word was doveritelnaya svyaz. The aspiration was to turn trusted contacts into full-blown agents, an upper rung of the ladder. As Kryuchkov explained, KGB residents were urged to abandon “stereotyped methods” of recruitment and use more flexible strategies—if necessary getting their wives or other family members to help. As Trump tells it, the idea for his first trip to Moscow came after he found himself seated next to the Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin.

August 21, 2021 - Asked why he’d said otherwise, Trump said it was because Putin had said nice things about me over the years.” · But Stephanopoulos kept on pressing, leading to the following exchange: STEPHANOPOULOS: “Yet you said for three years, ’13, ’14 and ’15, that you did have a relationship with him.”

August 14, 2025 - Trump and Putin were supposed to ... the summit. Trump and Putin first met at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, back in July 2017....

August 26, 2025 - US President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday at a summit in Alaska, the first since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. The three-hour meeting ended without a ceasefire declaration and the two leaders gave only short ...

August 8, 2025 - Putin met Trump met six times during the American’s first term -– at and on the sidelines of G20 and APEC gatherings — but most famously in Helsinki in July 2018. That’s where Trump stood next to Putin and appeared to accept his insistence ...

5 hours ago - 'I don't trust Putin and he doesn't want success for Ukraine,' ⁠Zelensky said, adding his Sunday meeting with President Donald Trump ⁠was productive.