The Kremlin today said Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump can discuss "all other issues" except Crimea, the peninsula Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014, at their highly anticipated first summit this month.
Putin has "repeatedly stated and explained that Crimea cannot be and will never be on the agenda because it is an inseparable part of Russia," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
"All other issues are ones of consensus, discussion and finding possible points of contact," he added.
Peskov also said while Moscow and Washington "differ" on "many" issues, "political will has prevailed and understanding is growing."
Asked by reporters whether he was considering -- as has been reported -- dropping Washington's opposition to the 2014 land grab, Trump said: "We're going to have to see."
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