Trump news at a glance: G7 leaders wrestle Ukraine back on to president’s agenda

President comments that Moscow ‘should make a deal’; Trump-aligned Ossoff wins Senate primary in Georgia – key US politics stories from Tuesday 16 June at a glance At the G7 summit, Donald Trump repeated familiar language about the Ukraine war – lamenting “the great antipathy” between the Ukrainian and Russian leaders that made it difficult to reach a settlement. He vowed to do what he could, saying Moscow “should make a deal”, noting that it had “lost a great many people, just like Ukraine”. Trump spoke to Ukraine’s Volodymr Zelenskyy and Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Sunday before travelling to the G7 and claimed both men were open to a meeting. He described the death toll in the war as “ridiculous”. The US president some time ago lost patience with his inability to force home a deal in which Ukraine gave up territory it had not lost on the battlefield. Continue reading...

President comments that Moscow ‘should make a deal’; Trump-aligned Ossoff wins Senate primary in Georgia – key US politics stories from Tuesday 16 June at a glance

At the G7 summit, Donald Trump repeated familiar language about the Ukraine war – lamenting “the great antipathy” between the Ukrainian and Russian leaders that made it difficult to reach a settlement. He vowed to do what he could, saying Moscow “should make a deal”, noting that it had “lost a great many people, just like Ukraine”.

Trump spoke to Ukraine’s Volodymr Zelenskyy and Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Sunday before travelling to the G7 and claimed both men were open to a meeting. He described the death toll in the war as “ridiculous”. The US president some time ago lost patience with his inability to force home a deal in which Ukraine gave up territory it had not lost on the battlefield.

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