Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated that President Putin is only willing to meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky if an agenda for the summit is prepared, while President Trump has

A summit in Paris six years ago was the first and only time the two presidents ever met, flanked by French president Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s then-chancellor Angela Merkel. At the time, Putin and Zelensky were looking to hash out a ceasefire deal for war in Donbas in Ukraine’s east, where Russia-backed forces were fighting Ukrainian troops.

Donald Trump has sensationally hinted that he could now withdraw from the trilateral Ukraine war peace talks with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky. The US President had previously said he would be a part of any crunch summit between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders.

Zelensky plans to meet Putin after establishing security guarantees, while the US works to facilitate a trilateral meeting.

Doing so would require the Russian leader to “accept the failure of sitting down with a president he considers a joke from a country that doesn’t exist”

Vice President JD Vance said Sunday that the US is working on getting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky together with President Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin for crucial peace talks.