FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin clasp a bilateral gathering astatine the G20 leaders acme successful Osaka, Japan, connected June 28, 2019.
Kevin Lamarque | Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to meet in idiosyncratic with Russian President Vladimir Putin as aboriginal arsenic adjacent week, the New York Times reported connected Wednesday, citing 2 radical acquainted with the plan.
Trump then plans to meet with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy together, the paper reported, adding that the plans were disclosed successful a telephone with European leaders connected Wednesday.
"The Russians expressed their tendency to meet with President Trump, and the President is unfastened to meeting with some President Putin and President Zelenskiy. President Trump wants this brutal warfare to end," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, responding to the report.
It was not instantly wide wherever oregon erstwhile such meetings would instrumentality place.
Earlier on Wednesday Trump acknowledged that helium spoke with European leaders aft U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff's "highly productive" meeting with Putin in Russia.
While noting that "great progress" was made during the meeting, Trump wrote connected Truth Social: "Everyone agrees this War indispensable travel to a close, and we volition enactment towards that successful the days and weeks to come."
Trump, who promised to extremity Russia's warfare successful Ukraine connected "day one" during his statesmanlike campaign, has held respective telephone calls with Putin and has met with Zelenskiy since returning to the White House successful January.
However, successful caller weeks, helium has go progressively frustrated with Moscow implicit a deficiency of advancement towards ending the three-year conflict. As a effect of the frustration, Trump set a Friday deadline for Russia to hold to bid successful Ukraine oregon look caller sanctions.
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