US President Donald Trump says he could meet Vladimir Putin \”very soon\” Trump says his team has been speaking \”long and hard\” with Russian officials. Secretary of State Marco Rubio plays down expectations of high-level talks in Riyadh. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says he believes Russia is preparing to \”wage war\” against a weakened NATO should Trump dilute US support for the alliance. The Ukrainian leader had said Putin was a serial liar and could not be trusted as a negotiating partner in an interview with NBC broadcast on Sunday. The US and Russia agreed to start ceasefire negotiations immediately in a phone call last week, but it remains unclear whether there will be any Ukrainian participation in the talks in Saudi Arabia in the coming days. The call blindsided NATO allies as well as Kyiv, with Zelenskys insisting there should be \”no decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine,\” he said in the NBC interview. \”I don’t think in geopolitics, anyone should trust anyone,\” Rubio said.
