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US President Donald Trump says he does not plan to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin until he thinks a deal is in place to secure peace between Russia and Ukraine.

"You have to know that we're going to make a deal, I'm not going to be wasting my time," Trump told reporters in Doha.

Trump was making a refuelling stop in Qatar on his way to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, which starts on Sunday in Malaysia.

Kirill Dmitriev, Putin's envoy for investment and economic co-operation, said on Friday he believes Russia, the United States and Ukraine were "quite close to a diplomatic solution" to end the three-year war.

Speaking to CNN after arriving in Washington DC for talks with US officials, Dmitriev said a planned summit in Budapest between Trump and Putin had not been cancelled but would likely occur later.

A White House official confirmed that Dmitriev, who announced his visit on X, will meet with US envoy Steve Witkoff.

Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine on Saturday killed at least four people and wounded 20, local officials said, and prompted fresh pleas from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for foreign air defence systems.

Police in the capital Kyiv said two people were killed and 13 were wounded in a ballistic missile attack in the early hours of Saturday.

A fire broke out in a non-residential building in one location while debris from intercepted missiles fell in an open area at another site, damaging windows in nearby buildings, Ukraine's State Emergency Service wrote on the message app Telegram.