The Kremlin says the invitation to Trump to visit Moscow remains on the table.

Moscow.- The invitation made by the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to his American counterpart, Donald Trump, to visit Moscow, is still on the table, the Kremlin announced today.

“The invitation still stands. Putin is willing and will be happy to meet with President Trump,” Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitri Peskov told TASS news agency.

The Kremlin chief proposed to his American counterpart to meet in Moscow after their meeting in Alaska last August. Trump has not responded to that proposal so far.

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According to Peskov today, “despite some contradictory statements” about Russia, the American leader “maintains the desire to contribute to the solution of the Ukrainian conflict and the political will to do so.” “And that is the most important thing,” he asserted. On Wednesday, the Kremlin considered it a “mistake” to encourage Ukraine to regain the occupied territories, as suggested by Trump at the UN General Assembly Trump.

This Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced that Moscow and Washington had agreed to hold a third round of consultations on the normalization of relations, which will take place this autumn.