Trump to meet Putin in the coming days with a place to be announced later, says Carmin

Meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump “This is in principle.”

“On the proposal of the American side, it was agreed in principle a bilateral meeting was held at the highest level in the coming days, Putin Foreign Affairs Adviser, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters.

Oshkov said next week is the target date of the summit, noting that such events take time to organize and no date has been confirmed. He said that the possible place will be announced “a little later.”

He also played The possibility of joining Ukraine President Voludmir Zelinski The summit meeting to discuss the end of the 3 -year -old Russia invasion of its neighbor, which the White House said that Trump is ready to look at.

“We suggest, first of all, focus on preparing a bilateral meeting with Trump, and we consider it important that this meeting is successful and productive,” said Ushakov.

The meeting between Putin and Trump will be the first since the Republican President returned to his post this year.

This will be a great milestone in the war, although there is no promise of such a meeting that will lead to the end of the fighting, because Russia and Ukraine remain far from their demands.

Western officials over and over again Putin was accused of stopping the time in peace negotiations To allow Russian forces time to capture more Ukrainian lands.

In the past, Putin has not made any concessions and will only accept a settlement on his terms.

It was not clear whether Trump’s deadline on Friday for Karmlin stopped the murder in Ukraine is still a stop.

Support continuing to fade the fighting in Ukraine

A new survey in Gallup, published on Thursday, found that the Ukrainians are increasingly eager to a settlement that ends the fight against the Russian invasion.

The enthusiasm for a negotiating deal is a sharp reflection since 2022-the year in which the war began-when Gallup found that about three quarters of the Ukrainians wanted to continue fighting until victory.

Now only about a quarter of this view, with the support of the war continued steadily in all regions and demographic groups.

The results were based on samples of 1,000 or more respondents between the ages of 15 years and over who live in Ukraine.

Some areas under established Russian control, which represents about 10 % of the population, were excluded from investigative studies conducted after 2022 due to lack of access.

Since the beginning of the war on a large scale, the uncompromising Russian bombing of the urban areas behind the front line has been killed more than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians, according to the United Nations.

On the confrontation line, which is 620 miles long from the northeast to the southeast of Ukraine, where tens of thousands of forces from both sides died, the largest army in Russia slowly seizes more lands.

The survey appeared on the eve of the deadline of US President Donald Trump on Friday to Russia to stop killing or facing heavy economic sanctions.

In the new Gallup poll, conducted in early July, about 7 out of 10 Ukrainians say that their country should seek to negotiate a settlement as soon as possible.

Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski renewed his offer to meet with Russia Vladimir Putin, but his offer was rejected when Russia is committed to its requests, and the aspects remain spaced.

The poll found that most Ukrainians do not always expect peace any time soon.

Just one quarter says it is likely that the active fighting is likely to end in the next 12 months, while about 7 out of 10 believes that it is “somewhat” or “very unlikely” that the active fighting will end next year.