Zelensky Declines Trump's Renewed Push to Meet Putin in Moscow

President Trump again urged President Zelensky to travel to Moscow for direct talks with Putin during their September 22 meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, as Washington seeks to revive stalled peace negotiations. Zelensky declined, and people familiar with his position said Trump raising the issue upset him; when asked by Russian journalists when he would visit Moscow, Zelensky replied, "On a missile." Zelensky's office publicly denied the Bloomberg report of the exchange, calling it false information. Zelensky has instead proposed that any Putin meeting take place in Kyiv, and said technical-level US-Ukraine-Russia talks would likely be held in the United Arab Emirates, though no date has been set.