MoscowThe proposed summit would seat 3 leaders and no Ukrainian.
Ukraine and Europe would be absent from a deal favouring Moscow, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Putin floated it on a 9 October call with Trump, for the 18 November Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
A senior US official said Trump has not agreed, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said no agenda exists yet.
China has signalled it will not object if Trump attends the Shenzhen summit.
How each outlet framed it
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- Reuters leans critical
- frames the summit as Putin exploiting warming Trump ties after the diesel deal and sanctions waiver, with the APEC Shenzhen sidelines as the venue
- Українська правда leans critical
- centres the Zelenskyy exclusion, quoting the WSJ that a summit without Kyiv would be 'unprecedented' and send alarm through European capitals
- TASS
- reduces the proposal to a Kremlin hedge, quoting Putin that a trilateral meeting depends on the host and Peskov that no meeting is agreed
- TRT World
- frames Trump's campaign pledge to end the war as the reason he could stay receptive to the summit, quoting a senior US official
Sources: Українська правда, Reuters, TASS, TRT World