Theresa May and President Putin during a meeting in 2016. The Kremlin confirmed that the meeting would go ahead after an agreement was reached following weeks of deliberation. British diplomatic sources had previously told The Times that a meeting would take place only if it had a clear purpose. “The leaders will talk about sensitive matters, and quite a few of them have accumulated in our relations with the United Kingdom,” Yuri Ushakov, a Kremlin aide, said. “If some opportunities can be found for normalising our co-operation, we will only welcome this.”Downing Street confirmed that Mrs…

Source: The Times June 26, 2019 16:08 UTC