The Kremlin said on Friday that there was a mutual understanding about the need for a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, but that the details of such an encounter had yet to be worked out.

Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson has stepped in to defend President Trump from criticism by Ukraine’s President Zelensky. Zelensky said the U.S. president is living in a “disinformation bubble” created by Moscow following Trump’s social post blaming Ukraine for Russia’s invasion of his country.

Trump said Tuesday he would probably meet Putin this month and dismissed Ukraine's concern about being left out of U.S.-Russian talks in Saudi Arabia.

The Kremlin offered Donald Trump support in his standoff with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, accusing the Ukrainian president of making "inadmissible" remarks about world leaders as a Russian official said he was stunned by how fast the U.

The fact that Zelenskiy's rating is falling is an absolutely obvious trend." Peskov said he didn't want to get into details on numbers though when it came to discussing Zelenskiy's popularity which opinion polls in Ukraine show is above 50%.

By Wednesday, Zelensky pushed back on Trump’s ridiculous assertions by saying that he was living in a Russian-made “disinformation space,” and, in response, Trump attacked the Ukrainian leader as a “Dictator without Elections” in a long,

As the rift between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy deepens, NBC News’ Molly Hunter reports on how it could affect the negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.