Ushakov said a number of countries have offered to organize talks between Putin and Trump

Several states have offered themselves as a platform for a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President-elect Donald Trump. Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov told reporters on December 23.

"We have already received several proposals to this effect from various countries," Ushakov said when asked whether Slovak and Hungarian Prime Ministers Robert Fitzo and Viktor Orban had offered their countries as a venue for the meeting.

Ushakov added that he would not name the countries from which the initiative came.

"Such proposals have been and are being made," the presidential aide pointed out.

On the eve of Trump said at the conference that he is waiting for a meeting with Putin to discuss the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.

Earlier, on December 19, the Russian president, during a press conference combined with a direct line "The results of the year", once again expressed readiness for negotiations on the basis of the Istanbul agreements, and also said that he would meet with the US president-elect.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later clarified that at the moment there were no real impulses to organize such talks.

Prior to that, on December 16, Trump said that he intended to initiate talks with Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky (his term expired on May 20).