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

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President Trump seeks to broker a meeting of the two leaders to end Europe’s most destructive war in generations.

The Kremlin hasn't ruled out summits but has said they could only meet in the very final stages of clinching a peace agreement.

Russia has yet again ignored Donald Trump’s bid to hold a summit between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky and said attempts to resolve security issues for Kyiv without Moscow’s participation was a “road to nowhere”.

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”

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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.