US President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin plan to meet in Paris next month in their first encounter since a summit in Helsinki that unleashed a storm of criticism that Mr Trump was cosying up to the Kremlin.

Key points: The meeting is being planned for November 11

The meeting is being planned for November 11 Mr Trump's national security advisor John Bolton warned Russia about meddling in future US elections

Mr Trump's national security advisor John Bolton warned Russia about meddling in future US elections Mr Putin and Mr Bolton failed to resolve the ongoing conflict around the INF treaty

The news of the upcoming meeting came amid growing tensions between the US and Russia around the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), with both countries threatening to increase their nuclear arsenals should Mr Trump follow through on a threat to abandon the 1987 agreement.

After a meeting in Moscow between Mr Putin and Mr Trump's national security advisor John Bolton, officials on both sides said a preliminary agreement to hold a November 11 meeting in the French capital had been reached, and that detailed arrangements were underway.

Both presidents plan to be in Paris for events to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War I, and they are planning to hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines, according to Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov.

Mr Bolton, speaking to reporters after his talks with Mr Putin, said Mr Trump would like to meet the Russian president in Paris and that precise arrangements were being worked on.

Mr Trump echoed the comments, saying he would probably meet with Mr Putin next month after the mid-term elections.

Mr Putin and Mr Trump have met several times on the sidelines of multilateral gatherings, but had their first bilateral summit in the Finnish capital in July.

Afterwards, Mr Trump's Democratic Party opponents, and some members of his own Republican Party, accused him of failing to stand up to Mr Putin, especially over allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 US presidential elections.

At a post-summit news conference alongside Mr Putin, Mr Trump questioned the findings of US intelligence agencies that Russia had tried to influence the vote.

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US still set to quit Russia nuclear treaty

During a 90-minute meeting in the Kremlin with Mr Putin, Mr Bolton was unable to make any breakthrough over Mr Trump's stated desire to leave the INF treaty, a step Moscow has decried as dangerous and many European countries have warned could reignite a Cold War-style arms race.

"There's a new strategic reality out there," Mr Bolton told a news conference in Moscow, adding that the Cold War-era treaty did not address new missile threats from countries such as China, Iran and North Korea, and was therefore redundant.

"In terms of filing the formal notice of withdrawal, that has not been filed but it will be filed in due course," he said, suggesting it was a process that could take several months.

Mr Bolton met with Mr Putin for about 90 minutes at the Kremlin. ( AP: Alexander Zemlianichenko )

Mr Putin used the start of the meeting with Mr Bolton to take the White House to task over what he said were a series of unprovoked US steps against Moscow.

He made an acerbic reference to the US coat of arms at the start of his meeting with Mr Bolton, jokily complaining that "we barely respond to any of your steps but they keep on coming".

"On the coat of the arms of the United States there's an eagle holding 13 arrows in one talon and an olive branch in the other. My question is whether your eagle has gobbled up all the olives leaving only the arrows?"

Mr Bolton quipped that he had not brought any olives.

Mr Bolton told reporters afterwards that Russian missiles were a threat and signalled Washington would ignore Russian objections to its exit plans.

"The problem is there are Russian INF violations in Europe now," Mr Bolton told reporters, repeating an allegation Moscow denies.

"The threat is not America's INF withdrawal from the treaty. The threat is Russian missiles already deployed."

Without the treaty, some European countries fear that Washington might deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe again and that Russia might move to deploy such missiles in its exclave of Kaliningrad which would once again turn Europe into a potential nuclear battlefield.

'Don't mess with American elections'

During his visit, Mr Bolton also warned Russia not to meddle in any further US elections, claiming that Russian involvement in the 2016 US elections had backfired on Moscow.

He said there was no evidence that the meddling materially affected the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, but that it did create mistrust towards Russia and provide a strong lesson to the Kremlin: "Don't mess with American elections."

"The point I made to Russian colleagues today was that I didn't think, whatever they had done in terms of meddling in the 2016 election, that they had any effect on it, but what they have had an effect in the United States is to sow enormous distrust of Russia," he told radio station Ekho Moskvy, according to a transcript provided by the White House.

"You shouldn't meddle in our elections because you're not advancing Russian interest."

He added that election interference was "a major obstacle" to achieving agreement on issues where the two countries have a shared interest.

The US charged a Russian national last week with playing a financial role in a Kremlin-backed plan to conduct "information warfare" against the United States, including attempts to influence next month's congressional elections.

Reuters