Earlier Thursday, when pushing back on Kremlin claims that a Trump-Putin summit had been set, a White House official had said Putin would also have to meet with Zelenskyy for the meeting to take place -- something the Kremlin has not been willing to commit to so far.

T he White House on Thursday pushed back on claims by the Kremlin that a meeting between President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin had been agreed to with a location secured.

TRUMP-PUTIN MEETING: The Kremlin said Vladimir Putin and Trump will meet in the ‘coming days’ after the U.S. president said he hoped to hold a meeting with his Russian counterpart in person to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.