WASHINGTON. May 15 (Interfax) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would need to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in person in order to settle the Ukraine conflict.
"Nothing's going to happen until Putin and I get together," Trump told the press on Air Force One headed to the United Arab Emirates.
That's a fact to be accepted "whether you like it or not," he added.
According to Trump, Putin was considering the possibility of visiting Turkey. "Obviously he wasn't going to go. He was going to go, but he thought I was going. He wasn't going if I wasn't there," he said.
"But we're going to have to get it solved because too many people are dying," Trump said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier on Thursday that no preparations were being made for now to arrange a Putin-Trump meeting.
"The question has not been discussed in a substantive manner, it has not been raised, so we have nothing to say about this," he told reporters on Thursday.