WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would “probably” meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who will be in the U.S. next week to address a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Russia’s war in his country.
“Probably, yes,” Trump said in response to a question from a reporter about whether he will meet the Ukrainian leader. Trump did not provide further details.
In recent months, some other world leaders who have visited the U.S. for summits and meetings with President Joe Biden have ended up meeting with Trump as well. Trump faces Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 U.S. election.
Zelenskiy said in August he wanted to present a peace plan to Biden, Harris and Trump. While Trump and Zelenskiy talked over the phone in July, they have not talked in person since Trump’s 2017-2021 term.
Trump has consistently described U.S. aid to its eastern European ally as a waste of money and has declined to say he wants Ukraine to win.
Trump is due to appear at an event alongside Polish President Andrzej Duda in the battleground state of Pennsylvania over the weekend.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; editing by Costas Pitas and Ross Colvin)
