President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he might meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia, just hours after the leaders had their first publicly disclosed phone call since Trump took office, Axios reported.

Trump said he and Putin agreed to “start negotiations immediately” to end the war in Ukraine, now nearing its third anniversary. He also made significant statements on Ukraine’s position, saying NATO membership for the country was not “practical” and that it was “unlikely that Ukraine gets all of its land back.”

However, he later added that he believed “some of that land will come back” to Ukraine.

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