ANKARA, July 8 – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that both sides in the war in Ukraine want to see a settlement but Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy have been “difficult.”
“We’ve settled a lot of wars, and this one is the one that I thought maybe would be the easiest, but Putin is a difficult character, and this guy’s a difficult character,” Trump said, referring to Zelenskiy, who was sitting next to him ahead of a meeting between the pair at the NATO summit in Ankara.
Zelenskiy said he wanted to discuss “some very important details” with Trump.
“I’m sure you will do everything to stop this war,” he told Trump. REUTERS