Trump and Zelenskyy, pictured at Mar-a-Lago Club on Dec. 28, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla., will meet again on Thursday. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
Trump at first said he would meet Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later today but now says the meeting will be Thursday. Zelenskyy isn’t in Davos. This morning, he was in Ukraine, where he had a special call to discuss the energy crisis given that 4,000 buildings in Kyiv are currently without heat due to Russian strikes on infrastructure. We have asked Zelenskyy’s press secretary whether he is going to Davos now.
During the Q&A session after his speech at Davos, Trump said that negotiators are “reasonably close” to a deal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. He said he believed that Putin and Zelenskyy both wanted a deal, and that if they aren’t able to get it done “they’re stupid.” He said that both Zelenskyy and Putin have “tremendous hatred” between them.