Vladimir Putin has reportedly said he is ready to meet Zelesnky provided all issues relating to the settlement of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev are thoroughly worked out

Geneva, Istanbul and Budapest have been put forward as potential locations - but bilateral talks still remain a long way off.

Analysts weighed in on what concessions Zelensky may consider making to end the war and what's likely to be off the table.

Doing so would require the Russian leader to “accept the failure of sitting down with a president he considers a joke from a country that doesn’t exist”

The Kremlin is keeping its options open, but analysts said the Russian leader would probably only meet with his Ukrainian counterpart to accept a capitulation.

The Kremlin hasn't ruled out summits but has said they could only meet in the very final stages of clinching a peace agreement.

The news comes as Russia once again seems to have ignored President Trump's desire to hold a summit between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky. Despite this, they also described any attempts to resolve security issues for Ukraine without Russia's ...

A summit in Paris six years ago was the first and only time the two presidents ever met, flanked by French president Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s then-chancellor Angela Merkel. At the time, Putin and Zelensky were looking to hash out a ceasefire deal for war in Donbas in Ukraine’s east, where Russia-backed forces were fighting Ukrainian troops.