Trump says Ukraine will have a 'different shape' after the war and says 'Russia was treated very disrespectfully' ahead of proposed meeting with Putin and Xi

Donald Trump has said that Ukraine will end up in a 'different shape' after the end of the war with Russia ahead of a proposed trilateral summit with Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.In an interview on the CBS network’s 60 Minutes broadcast on Sunday, the US president said Moscow was treated with 'great disrespect' by Kyiv and refused to disclose which leader he trusted more, Putin or Volodymyr Zelensky.'Well, I'd rather not say, but I get along with both. I believe that that war is going to end, and it's going to end soon. And the only reason it's going to end is because of me. There is tremendous hatred between President Putin and President Zelensky,' Trump told 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat.'Isn't it more understandable coming from President Zelensky, given that his country was actually invaded?' Douthat replied.'Well, it is. But when they had their first meeting there was great disrespect shown to Russia,' Trump said.The US president insisted that a peace deal is 'going to happen', adding: 'They're going to end up with a little bit different shape Ukraine.'Asked whether the Kremlin leader was stringing him along, Trump replied: 'Oh, I don't think so.' Beijing confirmed it is discussing a historic meeting between the Chinese leader, Trump and Putin which could take place on the sidelines of the APEC summit in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen this month. Donald Trump has said that Ukraine will end up in a 'different shape' after the end of the war with Russia Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference with the German Chancellor on November 3 at the Chancellery in Berlin Russia's President Vladimir Putin holds a Security Council meeting in Moscow on November 6Mao Ning, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, said at a press briefing last week in Beijing that China 'is in communication with relevant parties regarding a meeting between the three heads of state'. Trump said ​on Sunday he thinks he will meet Xi and Putin at an APEC leaders' summit in China next week and discuss ending the ​war in Iran and denuclearisation.Trump told reporters before ​flying back to Washington from Florida that he ⁠will travel to China for the APEC summit, ​set for November 18-19 in the southern tech hub ​of Shenzhen.'One of the meetings, I think, will be with President Putin and President Xi, and that'll be interesting. We're talking ​a lot of things, including denuclearisation, but we'll ​be talking a lot of things. We're trying to end the ‌war ⁠in Iran,' he said. If it happens, it would be historic. Experts, however, say the three leaders are unlikely to discuss anything substantive because their interests are at odds, but they would gather for a photo, with China carefully choreographing the meeting.'I think it will happen. The question is the format and the content,' said Sun Yun, director of the China programme at the Stimson Centre. 'China wants the image but not the costs.''Putin has the most to gain from a leaders’ trilateral, and the Russians are clearly behind the push for a meeting, which would be a diplomatic coup,' said Danny Russel, a former senior State Department official who served in former President Barack Obama’s administration.Trump, with his 'crush on authoritarian strongmen,' would love the meeting, though he clearly has been warned by his advisers to steer clear of Ukraine as a topic of the discussions, said Russel, who is now a distinguished fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute. Sun of the Stimson Centre said Russia would likely use the summit to nudge China and the US closer to Moscow’s positions on Ukraine, while 'China will have to manage Russian manipulation'.China also would not engage in talks on arms controls or discussions about Ukraine or Iran, other than its diplomatic refrain that peace is important and wars should end, Sun said.Beijing’s biggest challenge may be the perception. The summit 'should not be equated to three great powers dividing up the world,' she said.The meeting may amount to no more than a photo opportunity that would allow Putin to be seen next to US and Chinese leaders, said Craig Singleton, senior director of the China programme at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies.'But these photo opportunities have diminishing diplomatic returns,' Singleton said. 'The spectacle may be historic without producing anything particularly consequential.'Russia's armed forces struck three power substations across Ukraine overnight on Monday and also hit a cargo ship in the Black Sea that Moscow said was providing arms to Ukraine.Meanwhile, the Kirishi oil refinery in the Leningrad region, Russia's second-largest, was set on fire following a Ukrainian drone attack on the region on Monday.The fire had been contained, Governor Alexander Drozdenko wrote on Telegram, adding that one woman had been killed by falling drone debris.Europeans will participate in talks on Ukraine in Abu Dhabi this week, while US envoy Steve Witkoff said on Monday Washington would bring together delegations from Ukraine and Russia on November 10-11.On Thursday, Trump told reporters ‌the war ⁠was close to being settled, adding it might involve all of Europe.Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Trump was probably alluding to progress on security guarantees for Ukraine and Europe, which had repeatedly figured in the Russia-Ukraine talks.'What is the ​post-war security infrastructure ​of Ukraine and more ⁠broadly of the European continent going to look like?' Rubio told reporters.'So I think that's what the president's alluding to, is ​that there's been some advances made in what that architecture ​could look ⁠like post-conflict,' he added.'Nothing's been finalised yet, and maybe some progress can be made in Abu Dhabi tomorrow when Jared (Kushner) and Steve (Witkoff) will be there.'Trump envoy Jared Kushner said ⁠US officials ​held 'productive and substantive discussions' with Ukraine, NATO and ​European partners in Brussels on Thursday regarding security guarantees for Ukraine and a broader European security architecture.