Putin, Trump likely to meet at APEC summit in China: Kremlin

Potential summit encounter

Ushakov told Russian broadcaster VGTRK that no signals or indications of plans for such a meeting had emerged yet, but noted that the summit remains approximately three months away. "If the leaders are at the same event, then it seems to me they will inevitably meet and talk," he said.

"We have to live until then. Before that, we still have many major international events," Ushakov added, emphasizing the packed diplomatic calendar before the November gathering.

Warning to Western allies

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a separate VGTRK interview that NATO and EU countries would be unable to publicly distance themselves from providing military assistance to Ukraine and pursuing what he described as an anti-Russian policy. "They know what they are doing and are trying to publicly distance themselves from it in advance. It won't work," Lavrov said.

Moscow will take into account the actions of "openly Russophobic elites" in Britain, Brussels, Paris, Berlin and other NATO and EU capitals when formulating its foreign policy positions, he noted.