Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he would be ready to join Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. counterpart Donald Trump at their summit in Hungary if he is invited.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin said they would meet in the Hungarian capital, possibly in a matter of weeks, as the U.S. leader continues to try to broker a peace deal to end the three-and-a-half-year war, triggered by Russia’s 2022 invasion.
Zelenskyy urges allies against appeasing Russia after U.S. trip
“If I am invited to Budapest — if it is an invitation in a format where we meet as three or, as it’s called, shuttle diplomacy, President Trump meets with Putin and President Trump meets with me — then in one format or another, we will agree,” Mr. Zelenskyy told reporters in remarks released on Monday (October 20, 2025).
The Ukrainian president criticised the choice of Hungary, which has a terse relationship with Kyiv and is seen as the most Kremlin-sympathetic member of the European Union.
