Donald Trump has suggested that he will give Vladimir Putin another two-week deadline to agree to peace talks with Volodymyr Zelensky.
Speaking to CNN, the US president said he will “know in two weeks what I’m going to do” after Moscow appeared to reject his plea for a meeting between the two leaders.
Earlier this week, Trump said he would let Putin and Zelensky make their own plans to meet, followed by a trilateral summit. Zelensky has accused Moscow of “doing anything” to avoid a summit between the two countries.
Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov cast doubt on the possibility of a meeting between Putin and Zelensky, saying an agenda was “not ready at all”.
In his interview with CNN, Trump repeated his two-week timeframe several times – a deadline he previously gave to the Russian president to avoid US sanctions.
“We’ll see what happens. I think in two weeks, we’ll know which way I’m going, because I’m going to go one way or the other, and they’ll learn which way.”
