U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, shortly after a meeting in Paris with French and Ukrainian leaders.
He claimed Kyiv “would like to make a deal” to end the more than 1,000-day war. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump claimed that Moscow and Kyiv have both lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers in a war that “should never have started.”
Trump’s remarks came after a meeting Saturday with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy and France’s Emmanuel Macron, that Zelenskyy later described as “constructive.”
Speaking to reporters later in the day, Zelenskyy insisted that any peace deal “should be just” for Ukrainians,
