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This is CNN breaking news.

Welcome to the lead.

I'm Phil Mattingly, in for Jake Tapper.

We begin with breaking news in our world lead.

President Donald Trump at the White House just moments ago, saying that he will soon

announce details of a meeting with Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

We're going to be announcing later on. We're going to have a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. We're going to be announcing later on we're going to have a meeting with Russia.

Start off with Russia and we'll announce a location.

I think the location will be a very popular one for a lot of reasons.

Now those comments come the same exact day that Trump's self-imposed

deadline was set to expire. He told President Putin to come to the table to end the war in Ukraine,

prepare to face punishing sanctions. We start things off with CNN's Kristen Holmes from the North

Law and the White House. Kristen, we are standing by for more details on this meeting that is supposed to be announced later today.

But the president had a lot to say about the dynamics at that event. What else did he say?

Yeah, Phil, one thing to note is that we know from the White House and from various U.S. officials, there is a lot happening behind the scenes.

And in terms of location, you heard President Trump mentioning there, they have been going back and forth with Russia for several days now, trying to

find a location that works for both sides. But I think the most fascinating thing, well, there's two

parts of this that he said, is he was asked about a plan that we had heard rumblings of, a plan

that would Russia wanted, that would have Ukraine cede some

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