WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is redoubling his efforts to end the war in Ukraine, announcing a second meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin one day before sitting down with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House.

Trump's announcement came shortly after finishing a call with Putin on Thursday. A date has not been set, but Trump said the meeting would take place in Budapest, Hungary. He later told reporters that he envisions the meeting happening in two weeks or so, and that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will host.

"I believe great progress was made with today's telephone conversation," Trump wrote on social media. The two leaders previously met in Alaska in August, which did not produce a diplomatic breakthrough, a source of frustration for the U.S. leader who ha

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