“There were sanctions specific to election meddling that I believe were discussed, but not beyond that,” White House Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters at a daily briefing.

Just one day earlier, Trump said on Twitter that “sanctions were not discussed at my meeting with President Putin.”The U.S. and Russian leaders held their first in-person meeting at the Group of 20 Summit on Friday in Hamburg, Germany.

Their high-profile encounter came amid a U.S. federal investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. general elections in 2016, as well as tensions between the two powers in conflicts of Syria and Ukraine.