
(Left) U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Aug. 18, 2025. (Right) Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
President Donald Trump said on Oct 25 that he doesn’t plan to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin until a peace deal with Ukraine is reached.
“I’m going to have to know that we’re going to make a deal,” Trump said while speaking to journalists on Air Force One at a pitstop on his way to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for a week-long Asia tour.

