Trump, who’d backed a ceasefire until his three-hour meeting with Putin last Friday in Alaska, continued to hedge on the subject. “If we can do a ceasefire, great,” Trump said, suggesting that it would be up to Zelenskyy and Putin to work that out.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he hoped Russia's Vladimir Putin would move forward on ending the war in Ukraine but conceded that the Kremlin leader may not want to make a deal at all, adding this would create a "rough situation" for Putin.