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Trump says Ukraine must want to end the war

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Trump says Ukraine must want to end the war

Donald Trump says Ukraine must want to end the war with Russia and believes Moscow has a military advantage. The US president was speaking in the Oval Office, while his envoy Steve Witkoff met Volodymyr Zelensky in Oslo, according to Reuters.

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Ukraine had to want to end the war with Russia, as his envoy Steve Witkoff met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Oslo. Trump was speaking to journalists in the Oval Office, according to Reuters.

The US president said Moscow had a military advantage, describing Russia as a “large machine” that continued to advance and had taken a vast area of territory. Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff was taking part in discussions in Norway aimed at finding a way out of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The meeting in Oslo between Volodymyr Zelensky and Steve Witkoff took place on 20 October, after Donald Trump accused the Ukrainian president the previous day of blocking an end to the war. The US envoy is also due to present Vladimir Putin with proposals drawn up in Norway.

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