US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Trump has invited Putin to December’s G20 summit in Miami to meet with world leaders.

Trump’s envoy wants to trade Russian political prisoners for U.S. sanctions relief, creating a path to business deals before the war in Ukraine ends.

A meeting next month between the leaders of the world’s three biggest nuclear powers is possible but hinges on the three sides finding common ground and setting realistic expectations about outcomes,

“What we see around Putin is more concerts,” Tsahkna told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour outside the United Nations building in New York on Wednesday. “Nobody around Putin, and we see very closely to the Kremlin from Estonia, is talking about victory anymore,” he said, calling it a “good sign.”

The White House has defended the ads as public service announcements similar to what past administrations have done to promote policies. Trump on Monday posted on his Truth Social platform calling the ads “positive promotion for our Great U.S.A.” while also promising to pay for them with “money I raised for MAGA Inc.”

The Trump administration is struggling to get clear answers about the death of a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague and has formally escalated its request for information from the country, amid days of stonewalling from Russian officials about the mysterious circumstances surrounding the episode.