{"id":1307549,"date":"2025-10-16T22:25:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/washington-does-not-rule-out-direct-dialogue-zelensky-and-putin-may-meet\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:25:43","slug":"washington-does-not-rule-out-direct-dialogue-zelensky-and-putin-may-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/washington-does-not-rule-out-direct-dialogue-zelensky-and-putin-may-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington does not rule out direct dialogue: Zelensky and Putin may meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US President Donald Trump considers a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to be quite real and does not rule out that it could take place soon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/live\/3fy_TfE3SFo?si=-DpWJ4v14ONtb95F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was stated by<\/a> White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt during a briefing in Washington.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I think he considers it possible. And he would certainly be happy to see such a meeting,&#8221; Leavitt said, answering journalists&#8217; questions about the prospects for negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow.<\/p>\n<p> According to her, preparatory diplomatic processes are already underway. In particular, a meeting of the American and Russian delegations, led by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is being prepared. After that, a new round of negotiations between Trump and Putin himself is expected.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;But I don&#8217;t think President Trump has completely closed the door on that,&#8221; the White House spokeswoman added.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tramp-proviv-telefonni-perehovory-z-putinym-zustrinetsia-z-nym-v-uhorshchyni\/\">Donald Trump previously spoke about his phone conversation with Putin<\/a> , calling it &#8220;very productive.&#8221; The summit between the American and Russian leaders is planned to be held in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p> In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-ta-tramp-obhovoriat-perekhid-ukrainy-v-nastup-iaka-zbroia-dlia-tsoho-potribna\/\">Trump plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> on October 17. The agenda includes discussing the results of his talks with Putin and further steps towards resolving the war.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump considers a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to be quite real and does not rule out that it could take place soon. This was stated by White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt during a briefing in Washington. &#8220;I think he considers it possible. And he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1307544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76885],"class_list":["post-1307549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1307544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}