Vladimir Putin is dusting off his stalling and delaying tactics playbook as peace talks with Ukraine falter and Russia continues to build up troops on the frontline and pound Ukrainian targets. In the space of just a few days, Putin has questioned ...

Russia has yet again ignored Donald Trump’s bid to hold a summit between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky and said attempts to resolve security issues for Kyiv without Moscow’s participation was a “road to nowhere”.

President Trump seeks to broker a meeting of the two leaders to end Europe’s most destructive war in generations.

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A summit in Paris six years ago was the first and only time the two presidents ever met, flanked by French president Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s then-chancellor Angela Merkel. At the time, Putin and Zelensky were looking to hash out a ceasefire deal for war in Donbas in Ukraine’s east, where Russia-backed forces were fighting Ukrainian troops.

Zelensky returns to the Oval Office for the first time since his blowup with Trump. This time he is bringing back up.

If Russia’s Vladimir Putin rejects a bilateral summit with Ukraine’s leader, the U.S. should take strong measures, Volodymyr Zelensky said.