Trump Pushes Putin-Zelenskiy Meeting After Talks With Both

Trump Sees 'Reasonable Chance' of Ending War in Ukraine

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By Andrea Palasciano, Daryna Krasnolutska, Jennifer A Dlouhy, and Eric Martin

August 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM UTC

Updated on

August 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM UTC

US President Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin and urged the Russian leader to begin making plans for a summit with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, after meeting the Ukrainian president and European leaders at the White House on Monday.

The proposal — which Trump pitched as a one-on-one summit between Ukraine and Russia’s leaders that would be followed by a trilateral gathering involving all three — represented the latest turn in the US president’s push to broker an end to a conflict that has lasted over three years.