The Kremlin has played down talk of an imminent summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, as Donald Trump renewed his call for the two leaders to meet to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump has ditched his call for a ceasefire in Ukraine, backing instead Russian President Vladimir Putin’s push for a permanent peace agreement. That has not stopped some European leaders from pushing for a temporary truce first, even though the US president has seemingly decided one is not necessary.

President Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic telling French President Emmanuel Macron that Vladimir Putin “wants to make a deal for me.”

For the moment, what came from Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska and the mini-NATO session in Washington is that Russia is no longer facing unified Western demands f

Trump urged Putin to arrange meeting with Zelenskyy. President Donald Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday to urge him to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymy

President Trump said Tuesday that he didn’t call Russian President Vladimir Putin in front of the European leaders at the White House the day prior to avoid disrespecting the Russian leader. “I didn’t do it in front of them — I thought that would be disrespectful to President Putin.