US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that officials from the United States, Russia and Ukraine will meet in Saudi Arabia next week.

The announcement was made by President Trump in the Oval Office of the White House during his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House, where they discussed the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The US president gave no details of the planned meeting in Saudi Arabia and stressed the need to end the war as soon as possible.

On Wednesday evening, Trump announced that he had reached an agreement with Putin to begin negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.