US Invites Putin to G20 Summit at Trump's Miami Golf Club

The United States has extended an invitation to Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the G20 summit scheduled for December in Miami, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday, signaling a sharp departure from Washington's prior stance of isolating Moscow on the world stage.

Rubio made the announcement during a press conference on the sidelines of a United Nations conference in New York. "We hope he'll accept," Rubio said, according to reports, though the Kremlin had not publicly responded to the invitation as of the announcement.

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The move represents one of the most consequential foreign-policy reversals by the Trump administration, effectively ending the diplomatic exclusion of Russia that Western nations imposed following Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The summit is set to be held at a Trump-owned golf club in Miami, adding a distinctive backdrop to what would be Putin's first appearance at a major multilateral gathering since the war began.

The invitation is expected to draw significant concern from Ukraine and European Union member states, which have maintained that Russia should remain isolated on the international stage until it withdraws from Ukrainian territory. No immediate reactions from Kyiv or Brussels were included in initial reports, but the diplomatic fallout is likely to be substantial given the war's ongoing toll.

The Kremlin's silence in the immediate aftermath leaves open whether Putin would travel to the United States — a country that has sanctioned him personally — for the summit. Continue reading at Business | The Guardian