Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump have yet to discuss a possible meeting, CNN quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying. It cited Peskov as saying there had been no initial contacts between the two leaders about whether such a meeting was needed or where and how it might take place if it did happen.

With Donald Trump pledging to end the conflict, calls for a negotiated resolution to the nearly three-year war rise.

The Kremlin's Peskov said on Wednesday that contacts with Trump's team at the level of "individual departments" were intensifying