President Donald Trump will meet with President Vladimir Putin of Russia this weekend after all, the Kremlin said Wednesday, but they will make it an abbreviated discussion in deference to their French hosts and hold off more detailed talks until another meeting later in the month.

The on-again, off-again, on-again meeting will come just days after Democrats seized control of the House in midterm elections and vowed to reopen the chamber's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election and any ties with Trump's campaign. An inquiry on the same subjects by the special counsel, Robert Mueller, continues.

It will be the first meeting between the US and Russian presidents since they got together in Helsinki in July — and Trump, with Putin at his side, publicly challenged the conclusion of his own intelligence agencies that Moscow interfered in the election. After bipartisan condemnation back home, Trump said he misspoke and did not mean to undercut the agencies' conclusion.

Trump has sought for weeks to sit down again with Putin and at one point sent his national security adviser, John R. Bolton, to arrange for a meeting in Paris this weekend when both leaders will attend an event to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. But earlier this week, the two sides appeared to call off the meeting, saying they would wait to get together until another international summit meeting in Buenos Aires later in November.