Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that a planned meeting between Russia , China and the United States next month could present the three participants with an opportunity to redraw global spheres of influence.

"We really don't want this to turn into 'Yalta 2, 3, 4' with a redistribution of influence," he said in comments to journalists on Wednesday, referring to the 1945 Yalta Conference in Crimea , where Allied powers redrew the world map in the wake of the Second World War .

Putin raised idea of three-way summit with Trump: What to know

The Kremlin has previously indicated that preparations were underway for a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US and Chinese counterparts, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping , on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit next month.

The Wall Street Journal first broke the news about the three-way summit earlier this month and said that Trump had not agreed to attend the summit at the time.

But the Journal said Trump was open to the proposal…