US President Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin and urged the Russian leader to begin making plans for a summit with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, after meeting the Ukrainian president and European leaders at the White House on Monday. The proposal — which Trump pitched as a one-on-one summit between Ukraine and Russia’s leaders that would be followed by a trilateral gathering involving all three — represented the latest turn in Trump’s push to broker a quick end to a conflict that has lasted over three years. But Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov indicated only that Trump and Putin had discussed direct talks. That left ... (full story)