Trump and Putin set to meet in Saudi Arabia on Ukraine

In their first confirmed contact since Trump's return to the White House, the US president said he had held a "lengthy and highly productive" conversation with the Russian counterpart who ordered the bloody 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

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(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on February 12, 2025 shows US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2025, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on February 6, 2025. (AFP)