Does Trump's announcement to meet Putin signal progress in Ukraine peace talks? | DW News

US President Donald Trump says he will meet with Russia's Valdimir Putin within the next two weeks in Hungary to try and find an end to the war in Ukraine. Trump says he and the Russian President made quote 'great progress' in a phone call on Thursday - agreeing to have the sit-down in Budapest. The more than two-and-a-half hour call was their first since mid-August. It came a day before President Trump is due to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington. Trump said the meetings with the two primary actors in the war, Putin and Zelenskyy, were badly needed.So what is the aim of meeting Putin again, given that Putin and Trump just met in Alaska in August?

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Post from DW News on October 17, 2025

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