Trump meets Putin envoy, says a 'big' agreement is coming
President Trump met Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev at the White House and said a big agreement is coming, but he did not meet the Ukrainian officials who were also in Washington.
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President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he met Kirill Dmitriev, an envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin, at the White House, and suggested that some kind of deal is in the works.
Trump would not discuss what they talked about, but told reporters in the Oval Office: "There's going to be an agreement, it's going to be a big agreement and it's going to involve more than Ukraine." He gave no details of what such a deal would include.
Russian and Ukrainian officials were both in Washington on Thursday at the invitation of first lady Melania Trump, who hosted an event marking a recent humanitarian ceasefire in the Ukrainian city of Oleshky. She said the truce showed what cooperation between the two sides can achieve and urged continued efforts toward a lasting peace.
Trump did not meet the Ukrainian delegation, which included Davyd Arakhamia and Dmytro Lubinets, and did not explain why he met only the Russian representative. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he hopes the US midterm results will lead to stronger support for Kyiv.
The Russia-Ukraine war has dragged on for years, and earlier rounds of diplomacy have not produced a lasting settlement. Trump gave no details of what he described. This is a developing story.
This summary is original reporting by tehworldnews, written after checking the facts against several major international news outlets and official statements.