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,

Why it matters: Putin has shown no interest in sitting down with Zelensky through 3.5 years of war. President Trump claims that's now changed, and that a presidential meeting is the key to unlocking peace.