Berlin : German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Moscow next Friday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said dpa international.
Details of their agenda will be announced in the coming days, German government spokesperson Steffen Seibert said.
The Kremlin side was also vague, saying only the leaders will discuss German-Russian relations as well as international issues of concern at the August 20 talks.
Relations between Berlin and Moscow are tense, with disagreements over jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, an alleged Russian-ordered assassination of a Georgian citizen of Chechen origin in a Berlin park in 2019 and a hacking attack on the German parliament in 2015, among other rifts.
Merkel was last in Moscow in January 2020.
After the visit to the Russian capital, Merkel was due in Ukraine. Details of that visit have also not been released by the government in Berlin.
Kiev recently said Merkel would meet with Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss security and bilateral relations.
There was speculation in Ukrainian media as to whether the two would also address the controversial Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline.
The gas pipeline, which is nearing completion, is to bring Russian gas to the EU via Germany, bypassing Ukraine, which depends on the lucrative revenue brought in by gas transit fees.
Berlin has held out the prospect of compensating Ukraine for the expected loss of revenue.
