“I don’t want to have a wasted meeting,” Trump said. Trump’s hesitancy in meeting Putin will likely come as a relief to European leaders, who have accused Putin of stalling for time with diplomacy while trying to gain ground on the battlefield. The Kremlin did not seem to be in a rush to get Trump and Putin together again either. “We need to end this war, and only pressure will lead to peace,” Zelenskyy said Tuesday in a Telegram post. He noted that Putin returned to diplomacy and called Trump last week when it looked like Tomahawk missiles were a possibility.