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WASHINGTON — <\/span>President Donald Trump<\/a> plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> and Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Wednesday while attending the NATO summit in Turkey, the White House said. Those discussions will come as Kyiv tries to refocus Trump\u2019s attention on the conflict with Moscow<\/a> and as Trump has publicly mused about Syria’s role<\/a> in the Middle East.<\/p>\n White House spokesperson Anna Kelly confirmed the meetings in a call with reporters while previewing the upcoming summit in Ankara<\/a>, where Trump also plans to meet with Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/a> on Tuesday. Before returning to the United States on Wednesday, Trump is scheduled to have a news conference, Kelly said.<\/p>\n Trump’s meeting with Zelenskyy comes as Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine is now in its fifth year. Both Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin held phone calls with Trump on Saturday, congratulating him on the July Fourth commemoration of the 250th anniversary of American independence<\/a>.<\/p>\n Zelenskyy said in a statement on X after his call that he and Trump spoke about the situation on the front lines of the war, where analysts say Russian advances have sputtered. Ukraine, has stepped up its attacks on Moscow and demonstrated its ability to strike deeper into Russia.<\/p>\n The Ukrainian leader said there is \u201ca real prospect of ending this war,\u201d and that conversation would continue at the NATO summit in Ankara.<\/p>\n Kremlin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said that in Putin\u2019s call with Trump, the Republican president reaffirmed his \u201creadiness to help achieve a quick cessation of hostilities and search for peaceful solutions to settle the crisis\u201d in Ukraine.<\/p>\n A senior U.S. official who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity on Sunday to describe the administration\u2019s approach said Trump feels a sense of urgency to bring the war to an end and will speak to Zelenskyy about how to do that. Trump is expected to follow up with Putin after his meeting with Zelenskyy in Ankara, the official said.<\/p>\n U.S. officials did not provide any details about the goals for Trump’s meeting with al-Sharaa. <\/p>\n