WASHINGTON (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz credited U.S. President Donald Trump with persuading Russia’s President to agree to a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart.

This meeting, to which Vladimir Putin agreed during a phone call with Trump, would take place at a yet-to-be-determined location, the German chancellor said.

“We don’t know whether the Russian president will have the courage to attend such a summit. Therefore, persuasion is needed,” said Merz, who was part of a delegation of European leaders who travelled to Washington on Monday to lend support to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

During a break in the meeting, “the American president spoke with the Russian president on the phone and agreed that there would be a meeting between the Russian president an

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