“He wants to meet, and we are setting it up,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate. “President Putin wants to meet. He’s said that even publicly.” Trump, a frequent critic of President Joe Biden’s support for Ukraine, said working with Putin to end the war was essential.

Well, he wants to meet and we’re setting it up,” Trump said during a meeting with Republican governors at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov welcomed what he said was Donald Trump’s “readiness to solve problems through dialogue.” The last U.S.-Russian summit was in 2021.