There is an explosive date on the Chancellor's agenda next week: a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Russia.
Relations between the two countries are tense.
Berlin / Moscow - Angela Merkel will travel to Russia and Ukraine in the coming week.
The government spokesman Steffen Seibert announced on Friday in Berlin.
The Kremlin also confirmed the meeting between the Chancellor and Russian President Vladimir Putin *.
Details of the program will be announced earlier this week, Seibert said.
According to the Kremlin, it is about relations between the two countries as well as current international issues.
Details were not given.
Merkel meets Putin in Moscow - and also visits Ukraine
Relations between Berlin and Moscow are very tense because of various conflicts, such as the imprisonment of the Kremlin opponent Alexej Navalny *.
Moscow also sees itself wrongly held responsible for the murder of a Georgian in Berlin and the hacking attack on the Bundestag in 2015. Merkel was last in Moscow in mid-January last year.
After the visit to the Russian capital, the Chancellor's trip to Ukraine * is planned for Sunday next week.
According to the spokesman, details should also only be announced in the coming week.
(dpa / aka) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
