Discussions will focus on international issues and “sad state of our bilateral relations, Kremlin’s Dmitry Peskov says.
Bolton’s paving way for Trump-Putin meet-up next month, possibly in Helsinki.
Now Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirms national security adviser John Bolton is indeed meeting with Putin “to discuss United States-Russia relations, as well the potential for a presidential meeting.”
Putin just told Bolton his visit may be the first step in improving poor US-Russia ties.
And Bolton said he’s looking forward to talks about better relations.
Since he started as national security adviser in April, Bolton has done one press briefing in the US — on May 8 on the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal. It lasted 24 minutes.
They talked about election meddling only very briefly, per Russians.