There will be no Trump-Putin in Vietnam: White House

Though they’ll be in the same city, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are keeping their distance.

The White House denied that the President would meet with his Russian counterpart Friday in Vietnam, putting the kibosh on plans previously confirmed by the Kremlin.

“Regarding a Putin meeting, there was never a meeting confirmed, and there will not be one that takes place due to scheduling conflicts on both side,” Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.

She said that while there was no formal meeting the pair may “bump into each other” at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, the second major international event they will both attend.

On Thursday a Kremlin official affirmed that a plan was in place for the leaders of the former Cold War foes to meet again at APEC in the central city of Danang.

The pair met in July in Hamburg, spending more than two hours talking about issues including alleged Moscow interference in the 2016 election.

Russia has denied any sort of interference, and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the time that Trump accepted their explanation.

Putin said Thursday that the U.S. could be trying to intervene in his own country’s presidential elections, for which he has not yet declared.

The longtime Kremlin leader told state media that doping punishments from the International Olympic Committee against Russian athletes were part of an American revenge plot.