US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he believed the leaders of Ukraine and Russia were serious about peace as he spoke to them both in what he called the final stages of his efforts to end the war.<\/p>\n
Trump, who had promised to finish the war on day one of his presidency, said he had no deadline but is embarking on a year-end diplomatic sprint as he welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to his Florida estate.<\/p>\n
Much like when Zelensky last met Trump in October, Russian President Vladimir Putin also spoke shortly beforehand by telephone with the US leader, who immediately voiced new hope at working with Moscow, which has been seeking to avoid stronger pressure from Ukraine\u2019s allies in Washington and Europe.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s renewed upbeat tone comes despite wide scepticism in Europe about Putin\u2019s intentions after Russia carried out another massive bombardment of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv just as Zelensky was heading to Florida.<\/p>\n
Asked if Putin was committed to peace despite the attacks, Trump said: \u201cHe\u2019s very serious.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI can say that I believe Ukraine has made some very strong attacks also, and I don\u2019t say that negatively. I think you probably have to,\u201d Trump said outside his estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he believed the leaders of Ukraine and Russia were serious about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[84190,23,103,12,183361,2808,7931,129724,2821,7933,3,183362,34451,38575,1206,4637,1208,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-374708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-america","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-donbas","tag-florida","tag-kyiv","tag-mar-a-lago","tag-miami","tag-moscow","tag-news","tag-polish-prime-minister-donald-tusk","tag-putin","tag-reuters","tag-russia","tag-truth-social","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}