The White House insisted Tuesday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin promised President Donald Trump he'd have a direct meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The Kremlin has not yet said whether Putin has signed off on Trump's push to arrange direct talks between Putin and Ukrainian Zelenskyy.

But when asked Tuesday whether Putin has promised Trump that he'll meet directly with the Ukrainian leader, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded affirmatively.

“He has,” Leavitt said of Putin.

Trump early on Monday during talks with Zelenskyy and European leaders said that he was pressing for three-way talks among Zelenskyy, Putin and himself.

But after speaking to Putin later in the day, Trump said that he was arranging first for a face-to-face between Zelenskyy and Putin and that three-way talks would follow if necessary.

“It was an idea that evolved in the course of the president’s conversations with both President Putin, President Zelenskyy and the European leaders yesterday,” Leavitt explained.