(ANSA) – ROME, AUG 8 – United States President Donald Trump asked Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni if Italy would be willing to host in Rome the three-way meeting on the war in Ukraine he initially proposed with him, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a telephone call on Thursday, sources said on Friday.
Meloni said Italy would and so US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to France, Germany, Britain, Ukraine and Finland about it and Zelensky backed the idea, the sources said.
The sources added, however, that Moscow will not consent to the meeting taking place in Rome because it considers Italy too much on Kyiv’s side.
A Russian source told Tass that the meeting will not be held in the EU and so the UAE or Turkey are seen as the most likely venues.
Putin has so far refused to commit to meeting Zelensky but the Kremlin said he and Trump have agreed to meet in the coming days. (ANSA).
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