Donald Trump said a breakthrough to end the war in Ukraine was “getting a lot closer” after meeting Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Florida, even as the talks yielded little tangible progress on a peace deal.
Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, the US president said he had an “excellent” discussion with the Ukrainian leader, adding that the duo had “made a lot of progress” towards ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The meetings — which came a day after a major missile and drone attack by Russia on Kyiv — marked the culmination of intense diplomacy to halt the biggest land war in Europe for the past eight decades. While Trump and Zelenskyy praised each other at a press conference following the talks, they offered few specifics on which elements they moved forward.