Trump says wants to meet Putin ‘as soon as we can set it up’
US President Donald Trump said on Friday he would like to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin "as soon as we can set it up", during a business roundtable in Abu Dhabi.
"As soon as we can set it up I would actually leave here and go," Trump said in response to a question about meeting the Russian leader.
Trump has repeatedly said he was willing to travel to Turkey to join the first direct Russian-Ukrainian peace talks in more than three years, insisting "nothing's going to happen" before he meets the Russian president face-to-face.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky travelled to Turkey but said he would not attend the talks, after his Russian counterpart declined his calls for face-to-face negotiations.
Zelensky had dared Putin to show up and negotiate directly to prove he...

