Moscow — Russian and the US struck a deal on Wednesday to hold a summit soon between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, a move likely to worry some US allies and draw a fiery reaction from some of Trump’s critics at home. Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov, speaking after Putin met US national security adviser John Bolton in the Kremlin, said the summit would take place in a mutually convenient third country and that several more weeks were needed to prepare for it. Moscow and Washington will announce the time and place of the summit on Thursday. In Washington, Trump said their meeting would probably take place after a July 11-12 summit of Nato leaders that he is due to attend. Trump said Helsinki was a possible site. Other officials said the Russians were pushing for the summit to be in the Austrian capital of Vienna. Trump listed Syria and Ukraine among the many subjects he said they would discuss. His list did not include warnings from US intelligence officials tha...
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