President Donald Trump said yesterday that he plans to meet with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy next week. “I will probably be meeting with ... Zelenskyy next week, and I will probably be talking to [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin,” he said before talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the White House, reported TASS. “He [Zelenskyy] may meet [with me] next week, whatever he’s like, I’m here.”
Trump seemed partial to holding the talks on his home turf, saying that they “could be [in] Washington,” adding: “Well, I’m not going there [to Ukraine].”