President Donald Trump spoke with Vladimir Putin on Thursday—one day before hosting Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House.

The president, 79, said on Truth Social that Putin congratulated him for the “Great Accomplishment of Peace in the Middle East” and asserted that his “Success in the Middle East will help in our negotiation in attaining an end to the War with Russia/Ukraine.”

He also announced that “High Level Advisors” of the United States and Russia will meet next week at a yet-to-be-determined location. He said he will then meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, “to see if we can bring this ‘inglorious’ War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end.”

The announcement on Truth Social follows Trump’s public musing that he might deliver the Russian president an ultimatum to hold “seriou

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