U.S. President Donald Trump said he had a productive telephone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Sunday (December 28, 2025) ahead of a planned meeting in Florida with Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
"I just had a very good and productive telephone call with President Putin of Russia" before the planned talks with Zelenskyy at Trump's Florida estate at 1:00 pm local time (1800 GMT), the U.S. leader said on Truth Social.
Mr. Trump will host his Ukrainian counterpart to try to close out a peace agreement that would end nearly four years of war sparked by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s capital and elsewhere in the days before the meeting.
The two will meet at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Florida, where the U.S. President is spending the holidays. Zelenskyy said the two planned to discuss security and economic agreements, and he will raise “territorial issues” as Moscow and Kyiv remain fiercely at odds over the fate of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.
In overnight developments, three guided aerial bombs launched by Russia struck private homes in the eastern city of Sloviansk, according to the head of the local military administration, Vadym Lakh. Three people were injured, and one man died, Lakh said in a post on the Telegram messenger app.
