Washington: President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest, Hungary, within the next two weeks just a day before he is scheduled to welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House. The back-to-back engagements mark Trump’s most ambitious diplomatic push yet to bring an end to the war in Ukraine, now entering its fourth year.

The announcement came shortly after Trump’s telephone conversation with Putin, which the U.S. president described as “productive.” While no firm date has been set for the Budapest meeting, Trump suggested that both sides are eager to explore new terms for peace.

“I believe great progress was made with today’s telephone conversation,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

According to Yuri Ushakov,

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