(MENAFN) US President Donald Trump asserted that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him Moscow has been seeking a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict for more than a decade and suggested that Washington could compel Kiev to agree to a negotiated settlement.

Trump and Putin reportedly discussed the situation in Ukraine during an extensive phone call last month, as well as the possibility of another face-to-face meeting in the near future.

“President Putin, I spoke to him two weeks ago, and he said… ‘We’ve been trying to settle that war for ten years. We weren’t able to do it, you got to settle,’” Trump told attendees at a business forum in Miami on Wednesday.

“I got some of these things settled in an hour,” he added, referencing other international disputes he claims to have resolved since taking office in January.

Following the call, Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky reportedly visited the White House the next day, aiming to secure US-made Tomahawk missiles to bolster Kiev’s long-range strike capabilities against Russia.

However, Trump emphasized this week that he is “not really” considering supplying Tomahawks, suggesting that Kiev and Moscow should be allowed to “fight out” the conflict on their own.

Trump has consistently positioned himself as a potential mediator for ending the Ukraine war, which began after the Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014 and escalated further in 2022. While direct communications between Washington and Moscow resumed earlier this year, talks, along with renewed negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, have yet to produce any significant progress.

The president has repeatedly expressed frustration over the stalemate, alternately attributing blame to both Moscow and Kiev, according to reports.

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