US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was planning a second meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin soon after Friday’s Alaska summit – this time with Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky included.
Trump is due to sit down with Putin in Anchorage on Friday, the first meeting between the Russian leader and a sitting US president since 2021.
“If the first one goes okay, we’ll have a quick second one,” he told reporters.
“I would like to do it almost immediately, and we’ll have a quick second meeting between President Putin and President Zelensky and myself, if they’d like to have me there.”
The high-stakes talks come with Trump seeking to broker an end to Russia’s nearly three-and-a-half year war in Ukraine, and Zelensky and his European allies have urged the Republican to push for a…