The US president then plans to meet the Russian leader and Ukraine’s Zelensky together, though it is not clear where the talks will be held
US President Donald Trump is open to meeting Vladimir Putin as soon as next week, a White House official said on Wednesday, as the US maintained plans to impose secondary sanctions on Friday in an effort to pressure Moscow to end the war in Ukraine.
Such a face-to-face meeting would be the first between a sitting US and Russian president since Joe Biden met Putin in Geneva in June 2021, some eight months before Russia launched the biggest attack on a European nation since World War II by invading Ukraine.
The New York Times reported that Trump would hold a trilateral meeting with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after meeting with the Russian leader.
The report said the plans were disclosed to European leaders, including Zelensky, on Wednesday.
