While striving to stop the war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump said the conflict will end, but added: “When I finish, I can’t tell you.”
“The war is going to end, and this gentleman wants him to end, and Vladimir Putin wants him to end,” Trump said while sitting next to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval office “I think everyone is tired of that, and we will end up.”
President Donald Trump greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the White House, in the midst of negotiations to end the Russian war in Ukraine, in Washington, on August 18, 2025.
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