Donald Trump has mentioned {that a} assembly is being organized between himself and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The US president-elect gave no timeline for when the assembly may happen.
“He needs to fulfill and we’re setting it up,” he mentioned in remarks at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Russian information company Tass quotes Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying that the US has not but formally requested a gathering.
Trump has promised to barter an finish to the struggle in Ukraine quickly after he takes workplace on 20 January and has expressed scepticism about US navy and monetary assist for Kyiv.
“President Putin needs to fulfill,” he mentioned on Thursday.
“He has mentioned that even publicly and we’ve to get that struggle over with. That is a bloody mess.”
Trump has nominated Keith Kellogg, a former nationwide safety adviser and retired lieutenant-general within the US navy, to be particular envoy to Ukraine and Russia for his second administration.
Kellogg set out his concepts for the way the US may result in an finish to the struggle in a research paper published by the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump suppose thank, in April final yr.
He proposed that Ukraine ought to solely get additional US support if it agreed to take part in peace talks with Moscow.
The paper additionally urged, nevertheless, that if Moscow refused to participate then the US ought to proceed its support to Ukraine.
Following Trump’s election win in November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned he believed that, with Trump as president, the struggle would “finish sooner” than it in any other case would have.
He mentioned the 2 had had a “constructive change” by cellphone, although didn’t say whether or not Trump had made any calls for concerning potential talks with Russia.
