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Kremlin plays down Zelensky talks as Trump warns Putin may not want to make deal<\/h1>\n
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The Kremlin has played down talk of an imminent summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, as Donald Trump renewed his call for the two leaders to meet to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The push for a bilateral meeting comes after the US president met Putin in Alaska last week, and welcomed seven European leaders and Zelensky to the White House on Monday.<\/p>\n

Trump admitted the conflict was “a tough one” to solve and conceded it was possible the Russian president was not interested in ending hostilities.<\/p>\n

“We’re going to find out about President Putin in the next couple of weeks,” he said on Tuesday. “It’s possible that he doesn’t want to make a deal.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Putin faced a “rough situation” if that were the case, Trump added, without offering any details.<\/p>\n

Despite initially pushing for a three-way summit with Putin and Zelensky,\u00a0<\/b>Trump is\u00a0<\/b>now suggesting “it would be better” if the two leaders initially met without him.<\/p>\n

He added that he would attend a meeting with them “if necessary”, but wanted to “see what happens”.<\/p>\n

The Russian president told Trump on Monday that he was “open” to the idea of direct talks with Ukraine, but the next day Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov watered down that already vague commitment.<\/p>\n

Any meeting would have to be prepared “gradually… starting with the expert level and thereafter going through all the required steps”, he said, repeating a frequent noncommittal Kremlin line.<\/b><\/p>\n

Dmitry Polyanskiy, a Russian deputy representative to the UN, told the BBC “nobody [had] rejected” the opportunity for direct talks, “but it shouldn’t be a meeting for the sake of a meeting”.<\/p>\n

Nato’s military chiefs are expected to hold a virtual meeting on Wednesday, while the UK’s military chief, Admiral Tony Radakin, is travelling to Washington for discussions on the deployment of a reassurance force in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

It was reported that Putin had suggested to Trump that Zelensky could travel to Moscow for talks, something Ukraine was never likely to accept.<\/p>\n

The proposal may have been Russia’s way of putting forward an option so far-fetched Kyiv could not possibly have agreed to it.<\/p>\n

Talks over the last few days appear to have given Trump a renewed understanding of the complexities of the war and the gulf between Moscow’s demands and Kyiv’s position.<\/p>\n

The much-vaunted ceasefire he said he could get Putin to agree to has not materialised, and now the US president has said Ukraine and Russia should move directly to a permanent peace deal instead – but some headway was made in terms of security guarantees for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Zelensky and European leaders seem to have convinced Trump that such commitments would be paramount to Kyiv’s sovereignty in the event of a peace deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On Tuesday, Trump said the US was willing to help the Europeans “by air” if they provided boots on the ground in Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire or peace deal, although he ruled out deploying US troops.<\/p>\n

The US president, however, did not go into the specifics of whether such air support may entail intelligence or the use of fighter jets and war planes.<\/p>\n

While Trump’s commitments remain vague, the France and UK-led “coalition of the willing” said it had been working to firm up plans for a reassurance force that could be sent to Ukraine if the hostilities end.<\/p>\n

After a virtual meeting of the group on Tuesday, a Downing Street spokesperson said the group would meet US counterparts in the coming days to “further strengthen plans to deliver robust security guarantees”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Emmanuel Macron attended the “coalition of the willing” virtual conference on Tuesday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Following his summit with Putin and latest talks with Zelensky, Trump now appears to think direct talks between Ukraine and Russia could bring a peace deal closer – although he acknowledged there had been “tremendous bad blood” between the two leaders.<\/p>\n

The last time they met was in 2019. Since then, Moscow’s war on Kyiv has resulted in tens of thousands of casualties as well as widespread destruction and ongoing aerial attacks on civilian targets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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