The president says he wants Zelensky and Putin to meet alone before he joins them in a potential trilateral discussion.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief the media around 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday after two huge diplomatic meetings between Trump and Putin on Friday and Trump, Zelensky, and EU leaders on Monday.

The Kremlin hasn't ruled out summits but has said they could only meet in the very final stages of clinching a peace agreement.

Donald Trump met with Volodymyr Zelensky and a large group of European leaders who descended on the White House Monday to support Ukraine’s president, bracing for the possibility of another explosive series of meetings that could change the course of his country’s future.

President Donald Trump is ratcheting up pressure on Ukraine to agree to terms to end the war with Russia, echoing some of Moscow’s talking points two days after meeting President Vladimir Putin.

Last time Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was in the Oval Office, a U.S. reporter asked why he wasn’t wearing a suit, a question that only heightened the antagonistic atmosphere. This time, according to a European official and another person also involved in planning the summit,