Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin wants peace, while Volodymyr Zelensky refuses to compromise

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, said on Saturday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin wants to reach an agreement to end the war in Ukraine. The statement was made in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, without Trump providing details about the nature of any potential agreement or the timeline for negotiations.

Trump accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of opposing a compromise. The American leader did not specify what concessions the aforementioned compromise would entail, nor what conditions had been put forward by the Russian side.

The statements bring the U.S. administration's position on ending the war and the pressure to identify a negotiated solution back into focus. At present, no additional information has been presented about the existence of a concrete agreement between Moscow and Kyiv or about a reaction from the Ukrainian president to the accusations made by Trump.