Trump Pitches Zelenskiy-Putin Summit in Bid to End Conflict

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in mediating conflicts, including between Pakistan and India, and Iran and Israel. He may have taken his biggest step yet toward that goal.

Trump called Vladimir Putin and urged the Russian leader to begin making plans for a summit with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, after meeting the Ukraine president and European leaders at the White House on Monday. The proposal — which Trump pitched as a one-on-one summit between Ukraine and Russia’s leaders that would be followed by a trilateral gathering involving all three — represented the latest turn in the US president’s push to broker an end to a conflict that has lasted over three years.