EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France ¨C U.S. President Donald Trump said Russia should make peace with Ukraine after a ¡°very good¡± meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday, in comments that sparked cautious optimism among G7 leaders that a peace deal could be struck.
The upbeat mood over the Ukraine war, now deep into its fifth year, stands in stark contrast to Zelenskyy¡¯s meeting with Trump in the Oval Office last year, ?when he was told he had no leverage in potential peace talks with Russia. Zelenskyy and his European allies came to this week¡¯s G7 summit in the French lakeside ?resort of ?Evian-les-Bains hoping to impress upon Trump that Ukraine¡¯s battlefield fortunes had improved thanks to its drone incursions deep into Russia.
Trump, who arrived ?at the summit brandishing a preliminary deal to end his war with Iran, said he would do what he could do to end the conflict in Ukraine, but there were few details of any concrete steps to raise the pressure on Moscow. ¡°Look, Russia should make a deal,¡± Trump told reporters, adding that too many young men were ?dying on the battlefield on both sides. ¡°I¡¯m gonna do whatever I can.¡±
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