US President Donald Trump says he no longer believes a ceasefire deal is the best solution for the Ukraine war and is opting for a permanent peace agreement between Kyiv and Moscow.
The US leader made the statement on his Truth Social website after he failed to reach a truce deal in his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska’s Anchorage.
ABC Americas editor John Lyons says the Russian leader played the US president ‘like a Stradivarius violin’ and the latter suffered a defeat on the ‘biggest stage of his life’.
European leaders are set to speak to President Trump ahead of his Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington
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