Trump to deliver new Oval Office address

US President Donald Trump has been scheduled to deliver a new statement from the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday 2 September.

As reported by Roll Call, a publication covering Congress, the address is scheduled for 2 September at 21:00 Kyiv time. It is not yet known what the US president will speak about.

On 22 August, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Vladimir Putin would meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy only after a "summit programme" had been prepared and that there were no such plans at the moment. 

Trump intends to leave it to Russia and Ukraine to organise a meeting between their leaders, thereby stepping back from the talks for the time being. 

Speaking to the media representatives on 29 August, Zelenskyy recalled that on Monday 1 September the "couple of weeks" Trump had given Moscow for next steps in the negotiations, including arranging a bilateral meeting with Ukraine before returning to the idea of sanctions, would expire.