President Donald Trump framed his Friday summit with Vladimir Putin as a moment to feel out the Russian leader’s parameters for ending the war in Ukraine and acknowledged it would take further meetings to strike a final peace deal.

Earlier Thursday, when pushing back on Kremlin claims that a Trump-Putin summit had been set, a White House official had said Putin would also have to meet with Zelenskyy for the meeting to take place -- something the Kremlin has not been willing to commit to so far.