President Donald Trump has announced a bilateral meeting with Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin in Budapest following a telephone conversation between the two leaders.

Source: Trump on Truth Social

Details: Summing up the conversation, the US president expressed hope that "in the Middle East will help in our negotiation in attaining an end to the War with Russia/Ukraine".

He added that he had spoken with the Kremlin leader about US First Lady Melania Trump's efforts to bring Ukrainian children home, as well as "trade between Russia and the United States when the W [war – ed.] with Ukraine is over".

"At the conclusion of the call, we agreed that there will be a meeting of our High Level Advisors, next week. The United States' initial meetings will be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, together with various other people, to be designated. A meeting location is to be determined," Trump wrote.

According to Trump, he will meet with Putin at an agreed location – "Budapest, Hungary, to see if we can bring this 'inglorious' War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end".

"President Zelenskyy and I will be meeting tomorrow, in the Oval Office, where we will discuss my conversation with President Putin, and much more. I believe great progress was made with today's telephone conversation," the US president concluded.

Background:

• This is the first conversation between Trump and Putin in the past two months, following their last contact on 18 August, when several European leaders visited the White House after the Alaska Summit.
• A few days ago, Trump thanked Putin in a post after the Kremlin leader praised his peace efforts in a public address.
• Trump is scheduled to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on 17 October, with the possible delivery of long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine among the key topics for discussion.

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