Donald Trump has vowed that he’ll do ‘whatever I can’ to end the conflict in Ukraine as world leaders agreed on Tuesday that Russia is not winning the war.
This comes as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told reporters at the leaders’ summit in France that there has been a ‘mood change’ in Russia and that Moscow knows it is losing ground.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said G7 leaders including the US president agreed that the tide has turned and Moscow is losing ground in its illegal war.
Trump called on Vladimir Putin to ‘make a deal’ as he said that he held a ‘very good meeting’ with Mr Zelensky, with whom he has previously had a rocky relationship.
Trump said at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, on Tuesday, ‘I’m gonna do whatever I can,’ adding that ‘Russia should make a deal’.
The US president said: ‘Russia’s lost tremendous amounts of people, and so has Ukraine. Last month, they lost 35,000 soldiers between the two – it’s on a monthly basis.
‘They averaged 25,000 people, mostly soldiers, young, beautiful people, and it’s crazy what’s going on there.’
Zelensky also urged Mr Trump to open negotiations on new missiles to ‘crank up the pressure’ on Putin as he said that Russia ‘must come to learn that its war will never be normalised’.
And with an agreement signed between the US and Iran over a peace deal, Mr Zelensky sensed a moment of opportunity for a deal over the war in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian president said that a growing number of Russians understand they are not winning and should end the war ‘better late than never’.
