WSJ: Putin Proposes Summit With Trump, Xi on Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a high-stakes summit with President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping next month to negotiate an end to the four-year war in Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Putin raised the proposal during an Oct. 9 phone call with Trump, according to a former Russian intelligence officer briefed on the discussions. The call also produced an agreement for the U.S. to purchase Russian diesel fuel and facilitate its sale on global markets. The proposed three-way summit would exclude Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, raising concerns that the leaders of the U.S., Russia, and…