The Putin-Trump summit could occur next week in Rome, say several sources

A summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Trump could occur next week.

Two sources familiar with the negotiations told Fox News that the summit was in preparation next Monday, Rome being a discussion.

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President Donald Trump is expected to meet in person with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, maybe next week. (Getty Images)

If the meeting advances later in the week, Rome could still be a possibility, although other countries are also in the mixture in Europe and elsewhere.

Trump-Putin’s meeting agreed to “in principle,” said the Kremlin assistant

The summit could still collapse in the end while the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared in the United States that he would not concede any territory in a peace agreement with Russia and that only the Ukrainian parliament can do so.

US President Donald Trump (C) and Vice-President JD Vance meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House Oval Office on February 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)

A meeting between Putin and Trump would be their first since Trump returned to the job this year. This would be an important step in the 3 -year war, although there is no promise that such a meeting would lead to the end of the fighting, because Russia and Ukraine remain far from their requests.

Trump, comparing to the journalists later at the White House, did not answer questions about a potential place for a meeting, but when he asked him about a summit with Putin and Zelenskyy, said: “There is a very good prospect that they” meet.

In this photograph of swimming pool distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the Security Council via a video of videoconference in Kremlin in Moscow on March 28, 2025. (Sergei Ilyin / Pool / AFP via Getty Images)

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The president refused to predict how close he was to reach an agreement to put an end to the fighting, saying: “I have already been disappointed with it.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.