A sit-down between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin would be the first meeting between the two countries’ heads of state since the war in Ukraine began in 2022.
“In that sense, it could be quite a big deal,” says Mai’a Cross, dean’s professor of political science, international affairs and diplomacy.
The New York Times reports that Trump intends to meet with Putin “as early as next week,” and then separately meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine in an apparent bid to negotiate an end to the more than three-year-old war.
“It does seem like they’re holding their cards pretty close to the vest in terms of what possible terms there could be,” Cross says.
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