Donald Trump said a meeting has been set up between him and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The US president-elect did not give a date for the meeting.
"He wanted a meeting and we arranged it," he said at his Mar-a-Lago hotel in Florida.
The Russian news agency Tass quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying that the US had not yet officially requested a meeting.
Trump pledged to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine shortly after taking office on January 20 and expressed skepticism about US military and financial support for Kiev. "President Putin wants to meet with the Americans," he said Thursday.
"He's said it publicly and we have to end this war." This is a real loss."
Trump has appointed Keith Kellogg, a former national security adviser and retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, as his special envoy for Ukraine and Russia for his second administration.
Kellogg outlined his ideas for how the United States could end the war in a research paper published by the America First Institute for Policy Studies, a pro-Trump think tank, last April.
He proposed that Ukraine receive additional U.S. aid only if it agrees to participate in peace talks with Moscow. The newspaper suggests, however, that if Moscow refuses to participate, the United States will continue its aid to Ukraine.
After Trump's victory in the November election, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he believed that with Trump as president, the war would "end faster" than otherwise.
He said the two men had a "constructive exchange" over the phone, but did not say whether Trump had asked questions about possible negotiations with Russia.
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