Putin-Zelenskyy summit: Where could Trump's Ukraine peace summit happen?
A man wanted for war crimes sitting across the table from the leader of the country he invaded?
A man wanted for war crimes sitting across the table from the leader of the country he invaded?
That is the spectacle that President Donald Trump is pushing to arrange in the next few weeks, convinced he can break the deadlock between Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy with a summit that could help forge an end to the Kremlin's war.
The plan, however, is tangled from the start.
Some European leaders maintain that no such meeting should take place before Russia agrees to a ceasefire. Many analysts doubt that Putin will actually agree to meet with Zelenskyy. And even if he does, there's the fraught subject of where to hold the negotiations, given that Putin faces an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Trump revealed Monday that he called the Russian leader “to begin the arrangements” during his White House meeting with Zelenskyy and a posse of European leaders.
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