Putin pushes for Shenzhen talks involving Trump an...

Summary

• Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested a three-way summit with Donald Trump and Xi Jinping on the Ukraine war, according to a US newspaper report.
• The president has been clear, Rubio added: Trump would like the war to end.
• On Sunday, Trump said talks to end the war were making great progress.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested a three-way summit with Donald Trump and Xi Jinping on the Ukraine war, according to a US newspaper report.

Sources told the paper that Putin hopes to negotiate a peace deal on terms that favour Moscow. Neither the White House nor Xi’s office had replied in public.

A senior US official told the paper that Trump had not formally agreed, yet he could be receptive to the idea given his push to settle the war.

How the Putin proposal began

One source, a former Russian intelligence official, laid out how the idea arose. Peskov also spoke to the paper directly. Putin first raised the idea during a phone call with Trump on October 9. That call also produced a deal that lets the United States buy Russian diesel.

Moscow has proposed holding the talks next to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, set for November 18 and 19 in Shenzhen.