Russian President Vladimir Putin could travel to the G20 summit in Miami in December, the Kremlin said on Friday (April 24, 2026) after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested it would be very helpful if he did attend and that it had been a mistake to expel Russia from the G8.
The United States has invited Russia to the annual meeting of Group of 20 countries that Washington is holding this year in Miami, and Moscow has accepted the invitation, a U.S. official familiar with the matter said on Friday (April 24, 2026).
Mr. Putin has not attended a G20 summit since 2019 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and then Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine which triggered the biggest crisis in relations between Moscow and the West since the depths of the Cold War.
“President Putin may go to Miami as a member of the G20, or he may not go, or another Russian representative may go,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state television correspondent Pavel Zarubin.
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