A one-on-one meeting between warring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin may not be likely any time soon, President Donald Trump assessed in an Aug. 29 interview.
Sitting down with The Daily Caller, Trump said a meeting between the Ukrainian and Russian presidents is likely if the United States is there to moderate it, but not if the meeting is just up to Zelenskyy and Putin.
“A [trilateral meeting] would happen. A [bilateral], I don’t know about, but a [trilateral] will happen. But, you know, sometimes people aren’t ready for it,” Trump said.
Trump’s assessment about a bilateral meeting marks a shift in tone just two weeks after he hosted Putin for an Aug. 15 meeting in Alaska, followed by an Aug. 18 meeting with Zelenskyy and other European leaders….