Trump to meet Putin soon as a White House deadline looms on Ukraine
A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump has been agreed, a Kremlin official said Thursday, the eve of a White House deadline for Moscow to show progress toward ending the 3-year-old war in Ukraine.
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00:00The U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to meet in the coming days, a Kremlin aide confirmed.
00:10This follows Trump saying there was a good chance he could meet the Russian and Ukrainian leader together in person very soon to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
00:21A deadline Trump has said for Russia to agree a ceasefire in Ukraine or face more sweeping sanctions is due to expire on Friday.
00:32When would that be?
00:34Well, there's a very good prospect that they will.
00:38And we haven't determined where.
00:40But we had some very good talks with President Putin today.
00:43And there's a very good chance that we could be ending the ending the round, ending the end of that road.
00:51That road was long and continues to be long.
00:55But there's a good chance that there will be a meeting very soon.
00:58This comes as Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, met Putin in Moscow on Wednesday.
01:03Minwan Zelensky indicated his support for a meeting between the three leaders.
01:08We discussed what was said in Moscow.
01:11It seems that Russia is now more inclined to agree to a ceasefire.
01:14The pressure on them is working.
01:16But the main thing is that they do not deceive us or the United States in the details.
01:21Three rounds of talks between Ukraine and Russia and Istanbul have failed to bring the war closer to an end.
01:28Three and a half years after Moscow launched its full invasion.
01:32Moscow's military and political preconditions for peace remain unacceptable to Kyiv and to its Western partners.
01:38The Kremlin has also repeatedly turned down Kyiv's request for a meeting between Zelensky and Putin.
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