Trump wants to personally meet with Putin next week
"According to sources, Trump revealed his plans in a phone call with European leaders on Wednesday. The meetings will only include these three individuals, without the participation of European colleagues. European leaders, who tried to play a coordinating role in meetings dedicated to ending the violence between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, while simultaneously supporting their European neighbor, seem to have taken Trump's words seriously, one of the sources familiar with the phone call said.
It is still unclear which of them, Putin or Zelensky, agreed to the plan outlined by Trump. Zelensky himself was present during Trump's phone call with European leaders, later stating that he had a "conversation with President Trump," and that his position and the position of European leaders is that "the war must end," but "must end fairly." The phone call also included the leader of the United Kingdom, the Chancellor of Germany, and the NATO Secretary General, as well as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Trump's special envoy Steve Whitcoff"