Vladimir Putin and Donald TrumpDonald Trump has enthusiastically announced that he is setting up a meeting with Vladimir Putin – but the Kremlin are staying pretty aloof over the matter.Speaking to reporters on Thursday from his resort in Florida, the US president-elect said Putin “wants to meet, and we are setting it up”.He added: “He [Putin] has said that even publicly and we have to get that war over with. That’s a bloody mess.”The Republican has pledged to end the Russia-Ukraine war on his first day in office although he has not said how he would do so, sparking fears he may pressure Kyiv into giving occupied territory to Moscow.Trump, who once praised Putin’s invasion as “savvy” and “genius”, is also expected to be much more sympathetic to the Kremlin than most of Ukraine’s other allies.But the Russian president’s team appear to be playing it cool when it comes to Trump.Putin’s spokesperson suggested hol
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