The US president vowed to ‘do whatever I can’ to end the Ukraine war, calling the high casualties on both sides in the conflict ‘ridiculous’
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenReutersPublished: 7:42pm, 16 Jun 2026US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Russia should make a peace deal with Ukraine, adding that he would do what he could to end the war after a “very good” meeting between President Volodymyr Zelensky and Group of Seven leaders at a summit in France.Trump arrived at the G7 summit in the lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains brandishing a preliminary deal to end the conflict with Iran and with a renewed focus on finishing the war in Ukraine.
He pointed to the high casualties on both sides in the conflict, a toll he described as “ridiculous”.
