Russia is disputing a White House account that President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are set for a bilateral meeting to discuss an end to the more than three-year-old war.
The push for a bilateral meeting came after President Donald Trump met with Putin in Alaska last week, and welcomed European leaders, Zelenskyy and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte to the White House on Monday.
“Following the encouraging conversations yesterday, President Trump spoke with President Putin by phone and agreed to begin the next phase of the peace process, a meeting between President Putin and President Zelenskyy, which would be followed if necessary by a trilateral meeting between President Putin, President Zelenskyy, and President Trump,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters during Tuesday’s press briefing, which aired on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 free online streaming platform.
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