US President Donald Trump is open to joining a proposed peace summit with Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky in Turkey, if both are willing to engage. Turkish President Erdogan has suggested hosting the meeting in Istanbul or Ankara.

In September 2022, Moscow claimed to have annexed the four Ukrainian regions and to this day it does not fully control them. Putin illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. Kyiv has repeatedly rejected any suggestion it would surrender the regions.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stressed that a high-level summit would require concrete outcomes from the negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations.

We are talking about direct talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Zelensky and American leader Donald Trump on the Ukrainian settlement only after achieving results at the talks between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed a trilateral meeting between himself, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Russian President Vladimir Putin to break the deadlock on ending Moscow's invasion.

The American president’s preference for praising and excusing the Russian leader has yielded no progress toward peace in Ukraine.

Donald Trump, speaking from the White House on Wednesday, told reporters he’s pressing pause on new sanctions against Russia, saying the decision is meant to

Ukrainian President Zelensky hailed a major drone strike on Russian military targets as a “brilliant operation”, saying it inflicted significant losses on Russia, which he described as “justified and deserved”.