India, Oct. 17 -- United States President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was planning a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest, after a phone call between the two leaders.

This comes even as Trump is scheduled to meet Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House for arms talks.

"President Putin and I will.meet in an agreed upon location, Budapest, Hungary, to see if we can bring this "inglorious" War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

Trump called his conversation with Putin "very productive", while saying that the "success in the Middle East" would help in negotiations towards ending the war in Ukraine.

The US President said that Putin and him had also spent "...