Trump says he will meet Putin in Hungary for Ukraine talks after ‘very productive’ call -“.

Trump also says Putin thanked his wife, Melania Trump, for her “involvement with children”, saying the Russian was “very appreciative, and said that this will continue

Melania wrote a letter to Putin, which Trump handed to the Russian in Alaska in August, raising concerns over Ukraine’s missing children.

Trump adds the two leaders also spoke about trade between the US and Russia when the Ukraine war ends.
Donald Trump says he will meet Vladimir Putin in Hungary for more talks on ending the war in Ukraine, following a “very productive” phone call between the pair

Trump says fresh talks will be held between “high level advisers” next week, led on the US side by Secretary of State Marco Rubio

A Putin aide says the talks were “positive” and the next steps were “clear”

The conversation comes a day before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to visit Trump in Washington DC

Zelensky is likely to ask the US to send long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine to help fight Russia – Trump has previously said he is considering this

We’ve just heard from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who says the call between Putin and Trump “lasted more than two hours”.

Speaking to reporters in Washington, Leavitt echoed many of the things Trump said about the call in his Truth Social post, including that it was “good and productive” and that he feels “great progress” was made.

Discussions will continue when Zelensky visits the White House tomorrow, she says, adding that Trump “deserves great credit” for pursuing peace negotiations so soon after brokering the Gaza ceasefire.
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Still possible to get Putin and Zelenskyy to meet, Trump spokeswoman says after call
Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump’s spokeswoman, is now debriefing the press in Washington on the call with Vladimir Putin.

Notably, she says that the US president thinks it’s still possible to get Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet.

Trump had hoped to facilitate a meeting between the two sides after his get-together with Putin in Alaska in August.

Zelenskyy said he was ready to meet the Russian president, but this has not yet materialised as Moscow remained non-committal.

Leavitt also says that Putin is committed to sitting down with Trump.

According to Leavitt, the call lasted for two hours overall and repeats that Trump believes that progress was made on the matter of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The president will try to move the ball forward for peace, Leavitt says.

Russia has long sought to frame Ukraine and the West as the aggressors in the war, since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.

Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev says the call between Russia’s President and Donald Trump was “positive and productive”.

He also says the next steps were “clear”, posting on X alongside an image of Donald Trump’s Truth Social post.

‘I believe great progress was made,’ Trump says

He says “high level advisors” from both countries will meet next week, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. A location for that meeting is yet to be determined, he adds.

After that, he says, the two leaders will meet in Budapest, Hungary. He does not say when that meeting will take place.

He says he’ll discuss his conversation with Putin when he meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office tomorrow.

“I believe great progress was made with today’s telephone conversation,” his posts concludes.

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