Overview
- Trump said he did not want “a meeting for nothing,” and a U.S. official said no encounter with Putin is planned in the near future.
- The Lavrov–Rubio follow‑up meeting to organize the summit was canceled after their call, and the Kremlin said no date was set pending serious preparatory work.
- Zelensky said he would join a three‑way meeting if invited and reiterated that Ukraine rejects Russian conditions for ceding territory.
- European leaders stressed that only Ukraine can decide on any territorial concessions and endorsed using the current line of contact as a basis for talks while affirming that borders cannot be changed by force.
- U.S. media reported that Putin floated keeping Donetsk in exchange for withdrawals from parts of Zaporizhia and Kherson, a notion met with Ukrainian and European pushback, as fighting continued with a Russian strike killing at least two in Kyiv.