The United States and Russia on Wednesday agreed on the date and venue for a meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the TASS news agency reported.

The details of the summit will be announced on Thursday, Putin’s Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters after a meeting between the Russian president and US National Security Adviser John Bolton.

Ushakov said the two presidents would meet at a venue in a third country. “Before the meeting [with Putin], contacts behind closed doors were held to agree the parameters and possibility of such a meeting [of the Russian and US leaders],” he added. “A very convenient place for us and the American side has been selected in a third country.”

The Kremlin official said there were several matters such as strategic stability, the fight against international terrorism, and other regional matters on the summit agenda. “All these issues are fundamentally important both for us and Americans,” Ushakov emphasised. “However, if we talk about the issues, which can be discussed, I can only assume those will be the current situation in bilateral relations, the Syrian settlement, global stability and the disarmament dossier.”

During their meeting, Putin told Bolton that the relations between the two countries were not the best at the time, TASS reported. “Unfortunately, I have to say that Russian-US relations are not in their best state now,” the Russian president said. “I have said this in public on many occasions, I would like to repeat at this meeting with you. I believe that to a great extent this is the result of a bitter internal political struggle in the US.”

A special counsellor in the United States is conducting an investigation into alleged Russian interference in the US presidential elections in 2016. The Kremlin allegedly attempted to influence the polls in the Trump campaign’s favour.