Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit a top military flight test centre and inspect new weaponry on Tuesday, hours before he meets U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Kremlin said.
Mr. Pompeo will visit Mr. Putin in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi for the highest-level talks between Moscow and Washington in nearly a year.
During the Sochi meeting, Mr. Pompeo is expected to push for progress on arms control as well as the Venezuela crisis. Mr. Putin and Mr. Pompeo are also expected to discuss the fate of the New START treaty, which caps the number of nuclear warheads at well below Cold War limits. The agreement is set to expire in 2021 and Mr. Trump has called for a broader agreement to succeed it, to include a rising China.