White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“I understand that the White House is working and allies are working to make this meeting happen, but did Putin promise to do a meeting with Zelenskyy, a direct meeting, in the coming weeks?” a reporter asked Leavitt.
“He has,” she responded.
Trump wrote in a social media post on Monday that he called Putin, “and began the arrangements for a meeting, at a location to be determined, between President Putin and President Zelenskyy.”
On Tuesday morning, during an interview on “Fox & Friends,” Trump said he was “trying to work out a meeting.”
“I called President Putin, and we’re trying to work out a meeting with President Zelenskyy. We’ll see what happens there. And then, if that works out, if it works out, then I’ll go to the trilateral and close it up,” Trump said.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday refrained from committing to a meeting and said any possible summits between the two leaders must be “prepared with the utmost care.”
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