ANKARA (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that both sides in the war in Ukraine want to see a settlement but Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy have been "difficult."
"We've settled a lot of wars, and this one is the one that I thought maybe would be the easiest, but Putin is a difficult character, and this guy's a difficult character," Trump said, referring to Zelenskiy, who was sitting next to him ahead of a meeting between the pair at the NATO summit in Ankara.
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Zelenskiy said he wanted to discuss "some very important details" with Trump.
"I'm sure you will do everything to stop this war," he told Trump.