Russian president Vladimir Putin is reportedly open to a face-to-face sit-down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky -- but only if several preparatory steps are taken.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky may have been left largely on the margins of NATO's summit in the Netherlands -- but he still managed to score a sit-down meeting with US President Donald ...

But Putin would only meet Zelensky if “the necessary work is done at the expert level and the appropriate distance is overcome,” Peskov added, without detailing the alleged conditions.