Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russia’s Vladimir Putin have arranged to meet in the next step of peace talks before a trilateral meeting that includes President Donald Trump, reportedly that may come in Budapest, Hungary, and not Moscow as Putin desired.
“Following the encouraging conversations yesterday, President Trump spoke with President Putin by phone and agreed to begin the next phase of the peace process, a meeting between president Putin and President Zelenskyy, which would be followed if necessary by a trilateral meeting between President Putin, President Zelenskyy, and President Trump,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters in Tuesday’s daily press briefing.
The reported trilateral meeting might come in Budapest, sources told Politico, but Leavitt declined to confirm the location, and noted even that step might not even come if the Zelenskyy-Putin talks do not advance the peace negotiations.
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