President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will sit down for an official bilateral meeting[1] on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg on Friday, rather than an informal pull-aside meeting.

The meeting, announced by both the White House and the Kremlin on Tuesday, will be the first official bilateral meeting between a US and Russian president in nearly two years and comes amid ongoing tensions between the two countries.

It will cap months of debate within Trump's administration about the first session with Putin, whom the US government has accused of greenlighting attempts to influence the US election last year to favor Trump.

The meeting was announced last week[2] but a format had not yet been set.

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