Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the leaders of China, India and three ex-Soviet states on Friday in a flurry of calls to brief them on his contacts with the United States about the war in Ukraine.

Putin also informed Lukashenko about his agreement to hold a meeting with Trump, Belta reported, adding that the venue of the meeting was being determined. The Russian state news agency TASS earlier said Putin had also spoken to the leaders of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and briefed them on talks he held this week with Witkoff on the Ukraine war.

An earlier version of this story had the wrong month.) President Donald Trump will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in person as early as next week, according to multiple reports, just days after a Trump-imposed deadline on Putin to end the war in Ukraine expires.