President Trump said Tuesday that it would be “better” if Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met without him first as Trump pushes the leaders to bring an end to the more than three-year-long war in Eastern Europe.

Doing so would require the Russian leader to “accept the failure of sitting down with a president he considers a joke from a country that doesn’t exist”

President Donald Trump has started arranging a meeting between Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, the Republican has said. Why It Matters Russia has so far refused to agree to a face-to-face meeting between Zelensky and Putin,