Kremlin said on Wednesday that there are no meetings between Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin scheduled during the APEC and G20 summits next week.

Kremlin said on Wednesday that there are no meetings between Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin scheduled during the APEC and G20 summits next week.

"No bilateral meeting is planned for the moment," Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. He added that informal contacts between the US and Russian leaders were not ruled out.

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is to be held in Beijing on Monday and Tuesday, while the G20 will convene in Australia days later, on November 15-16.

Despite initial hesitation over Putin's attendance of the G20 over the current conflict in eastern Ukraine, where over 4,000 people have been killed by fighting since April, the Russian leader will turn up.

Relations between Russia and the United States have become the iciest since the Cold War after Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in March.

Putin in mid-October accused Obama of having a hostile attitude towards Russia, while Obama decried "Russian aggression in Europe" in a recent speech to the United Nations General Assembly.