Russia’s top diplomat said in an interview released on Friday that “there is no meeting planned” between President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. It was the Kremlin’s most direct declaration yet that a summit the White House suggested was imminent was nowhere close to materializing.

Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov told NBC News there's no meeting in the works between Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky.