U.S. President Donald Trump plans to meet in individual with Russian President Vladimir Putin as early as next week, the New York Times reported on Wednesday (August 6, 2025), citing two individuals conversant in the plan.
Mr. Trump then plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the newspaper reported, including that the plans had been disclosed in a name with European leaders on Wednesday.
Dangerous flip: On Trump and the Ukraine conflict
The White House didn’t instantly reply to the report however earlier on Wednesday, Mr. Trump acknowledged that he spoke with European leaders after U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff’s “highly productive” assembly with Mr. Putin in Russia.
While noting that “great progress” was made in the course of the assembly, Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social: “Everyone agrees this War must come to a close, and we will work towards that in the days and weeks to come.”
Mr. Trump, who promised to finish Russia’s conflict in Ukraine on “day one” throughout his presidential marketing campaign, has held a number of telephone calls with Putin and has met with Zelenskiy since returning to the White House in January.
However, in current weeks, he has turn into more and more pissed off with Moscow over an absence of progress in direction of ending the three-year battle.
