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Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday that President Donald Trump will not initially meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin alone, as previously planned, but will instead be joined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his special envoy Steve Witkoff.
Leavitt told reporters aboard Air Force One the session will be a “three-on-three” meeting rather than a one-on-one.
Putin will almost certainly be joined by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said on CNN. The other attendee for the 3-on-3 meeting will be either Yury Ushakov, a diplomatic adviser, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, Defense Minister Andrei Belousov or Finance Minister Anton Siluanov.
Trump’s planned working lunch with Putin will also include Rubio, Witkoff, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
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