Bloomberg: Zelensky refuses Trump’s latest call to meet Putin in Moscow
Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelensky to go to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin, sources told Bloomberg. Trump made the suggestion when he and Zelensky met on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York, the sources said. Zelensky turned him down.
Bloomberg reports that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has declined President Donald Trump's latest request to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. According to sources, Trump suggested this during a meeting between him and Zelensky at the U.N. General Assembly in New York. However, the Ukrainian leader reportedly expressed displeasure at Trump's repeated entreaties for him to travel to Moscow.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov reiterated the Russian stance that a meeting between Putin and Zelensky could only take place in Moscow. This position was reiterated by Peskov on September 23. In June 2026, Putin had reportedly told a Russian businessman named Roman Abramovich that he would meet with Zelensky in person. But Putin had previously stated that he did not want to engage in "talks for the sake of talking."
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