Leavitt also claimed that no one takes Dáte seriously, including his fellow reporters.

According to U.S. media, Trump tried to convince Zelenskiy to give up Russian-occupied territories in exchange for an end to the conflict. Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported that Putin offered Trump a partial concession in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in exchange for Kyiv relinquishing Donetsk and Luhansk entirely.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's call for Ukraine and Russia to stop at the current frontlines was "a good compromise".

"It just it didn't feel right to me. It didn't feel like we were going to get to the place we have to get. So I cancelled it, but we'll do it in the future."