President Donald Trump said Washington sees growing willingness to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, as Kyiv and Moscow prepare for U.S.-brokered peace talks in Abu Dhabi later Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, Trump said both sides were battle-weary, more than four and a half years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
His comments followed a U.S. official’s assessment that Moscow and Kyiv were privately showing some flexibility over a possible exchange of territory: