Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he would be ready to join Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at a proposed summit in Hungary, if invited.
The U.S. and Russian presidents announced on Thursday that they plan to hold talks in Budapest in the coming weeks to discuss the war in Ukraine.
“If there’s an invitation to a format where the three of us meet — what you might call fast diplomacy — then, in one format or another, we would agree to it,” Zelensky told reporters.
Meanwhile, media reports on Sunday said Zelensky’s White House meeting with Trump on Friday turned into a “shouting match,” as the American side allegedly urged Ukraine to accept Russia’s conditions to end the war.
During his first press conference after the meeting, Zelensky appeared reserved but made it clear there were major disagreements between the two sides, according to the BBC.
He described the meeting as “honest” and said he had told Trump his main goal was a just peace, not a quick one.
Zelensky also criticized Hungary as the venue for potential Trump-Putin talks, arguing that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán could not “do anything positive for Ukrainians or offer a balanced contribution.”
