Donald Trump Says Ukraine War Could End 'Within Weeks'

Last Updated:February 25, 2025, 15:39 IST

President Trump suggested the Ukraine war could end "within weeks" during talks with French President Macron. Trump is discussing with Putin to end the war and major economic deals.

US President Donald Trump (AP Photo)

US President Donald Trump on Monday said the Ukraine war could end “within weeks" as he met with French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House over ending the conflict.

Macron sought to persuade Trump to stick by Kyiv, insisting that Ukraine “must be involved" in talks after the US president opened direct talks with Moscow over the war.

Earlier today, Trump said that he and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are discussing “major" economic deals as part of discussions on ending the war started by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

“I am in serious discussions with President Vladimir Putin of Russia concerning the ending of the War, and also major Economic Development transactions which will take place between the United States and Russia. Talks are proceeding very well!" Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.

Trump issued the statement after being joined by French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House for a conference call with other G7 leaders on the third anniversary of the start of the full-scale Russian invasion.

Washington’s European allies are scrambling to react to the abrupt shift in US policy since Trump took office last month.

After three years of steady US and European support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia, Trump has entered talks with Moscow on a settlement — while leaving it unclear how much say Ukraine and European countries will be allowed in shaping the terms.

Russia has been under crushing international sanctions spearheaded by former president Joe Biden’s administration in response to its military onslaught against neighboring Ukraine.

Meanwhile, UN members backed a resolution supporting Ukraine’s territorial integrity Monday in the face of staunch opposition from Washington which pushed its own language that declined to blame Russia for the war or mention Kyiv’s borders.

As US President Donald Trump stakes out a new position on the Ukraine war, a European-backed text marking the conflict’s third anniversary won 93 votes for and 18 votes against, with 65 abstentions.

Washington sided with Moscow, as well as Russian allies Belarus, North Korea and Sudan, to vote against.

The text — which won far less support compared to previous resolution on the war — strongly criticizes Russia, and emphasizes Ukraine’s territorial integrity and inviolability of its borders.

Washington drafted a rival resolution amid an intensifying feud between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Russian ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia had called the US text “a step in the right direction" amid a sudden thaw between Russia and the US under Trump.

But Washington’s ally France put forward amendments to the US text telling the General Assembly that Paris, along with European countries and Britain, would “not be able to support in its current form."

The countries, all backers of Ukraine, pushed to reword the US text to say that the “full-scale invasion of Ukraine" has been undertaken by Russia.

The US proposal was so heavily amended that Washington ultimately abstained on its own text.

The inviolability of Ukrainian territorial integrity was a cornerstone of previous resolutions passed by the Assembly, with the United States under former president Joe Biden among its strongest supporters.

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