WASHINGTON– President Donald Trump plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Wednesday while attending the NATO summit in Turkey, the White House said. Those discussions will come as kyiv tries to refocus Trump’s attention on the conflict with Moscow and as Trump publicly reflects on Syria’s role in the Middle East.

White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly confirmed the meetings in a call with reporters as she previewed the upcoming summit in Ankara, where Trump also plans to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday. Before returning to the United States on Wednesday, Trump plans to hold a news conference, Kelly said.

Trump’s meeting with Zelenskyy comes as Russia’s war in Ukraine is in its fifth year. Both Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin held phone calls with Trump on Saturday, congratulating him on the July 4 commemoration of the 250th anniversary of American independence.

Zelenskyy said in a statement on Ukraine has intensified its attacks on Moscow and demonstrated its ability to strike deeper into Russia.

The Ukrainian leader said there was “a real prospect of ending this war” and that the conversation would continue at the NATO summit in Ankara.

Kremlin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said that in Putin’s call to Trump, the Republican president reaffirmed his “readiness to help achieve a quick cessation of hostilities and the search for peaceful solutions to resolve the crisis” in Ukraine.

A senior U.S. official who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity on Sunday to describe the administration’s approach said Trump feels an urgency to end the war and will talk to Zelenskyy about how to do so. Trump is expected to follow up with Putin after his meeting with Zelenskyy in Ankara, the official said.

US officials did not provide any details about the objectives of Trump’s meeting with al-Sharaa.

As Trump grows increasingly frustrated by Israel’s war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, which has complicated negotiations in the Iran war, the American leader has repeatedly surprised many in the region by suggesting that Syria instead fight Hezbollah.

Al-Sharaa, who led an Islamic insurgent group and whose rebel forces overthrew Bashar Assad as Syria’s president, has said he has no interest in doing so. He has suggested that Trump’s comments were misinterpreted, even as Trump has repeated them.