The Kremlin on Tuesday said Vladimir Putin would be comfortable with holding one-on-one talks with President Donald Trump at their summit later this month in Helsinki, according to a report.

“It is totally suitable. President Putin feels relaxed in any format, which is comfortable for his interlocutors​,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, Russian news agency Tass reported. “​Indeed, we do not rule out that both Presidents Putin and Trump may have a tête-à-tête meeting at the beginning, if an initial agreement is confirmed and there is preliminary understanding.”

​Peskov was responding to a CNN report on Monday that said Trump plans to meet face-to-face with Putin at their July 16 meeting ​before allowing aides to join them.

​Trump met individually with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and their translators during the June 12 summit in Singapore before their entourages joined in, the report said, and wants to repeat that experience with Putin.

​This would be the first formal sitdown between the two leaders, although they met on the sidelines of ​a G-20 gathering in Germany and an Asian Pacific conference in Vietnam last year.

​The two are expected to discuss a number of topics, and Trump said he would bring up Russia’s interfering in the 2016 election.​

“I’ll talk to him about everything,” Trump ​told reporters aboard Air Force One last Friday​. “We’re going to talk about Ukraine, we’re going to be talking about Syria, we’ll be talking about elections. And we don’t want anybody tampering with elections. We’ll be talking about world events.”