Trump asks Zelensky to meet Putin in Moscow, Zelensky replies: ‘On a missile’

The exchange exposes how far apart Washington and Kyiv remain on the diplomatic track, even as the US president personally pushes a format Ukraine has consistently refused. The disputed readout from a senior US official adds a second layer: not just policy disagreement, but competing accounts of what was said. For markets watching the war's trajectory, the signal is that a negotiated pause still lacks a shared premise between the parties, and whether that gap narrows is the open question.