(MENAFN) US President Donald Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin informed him that Moscow has been attempting to find a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict for more than ten years and that the US could potentially compel Kiev to accept a negotiated settlement.

The two leaders reportedly discussed Ukraine during a recent phone call, as well as the possibility of another in-person 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 said at the America Business Forum in Miami on Wednesday. “I got some of these things settled in an hour,” he added, referencing other international conflicts he claims to have resolved since taking office.

According to reports, Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky was caught off guard by the call and visited the White House the next day to request US-made Tomahawk missiles to expand Kiev’s long-range strike capabilities against Russia. Trump, however, stated this week that he is “not really” considering supplying the missiles, suggesting that Kiev and Moscow should resolve the conflict themselves.

Trump has long promised to mediate an end to the war, which began following the 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev and escalated in 2022. He resumed direct communication with Moscow earlier this year, but those talks, along with renewed negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, have yet to yield results. The US president has repeatedly expressed frustration, blaming both Moscow and Kiev for the ongoing deadlock.

Moscow maintains that it seeks a lasting resolution rather than a temporary ceasefire, which it argues would merely allow Kiev and its Western supporters to regroup and rearm. Russia insists that any long-term settlement must include Ukrainian neutrality, demilitarization, denazification, and recognition of the current territorial situation.

Kiev and European allies continue to call for more Western military assistance while avoiding direct diplomatic engagement between Washington and Moscow. Zelensky has also claimed credit for blocking a proposed Trump-Putin summit in Budapest. The Kremlin, however, has stated that both leaders view the meeting as postponed rather than canceled, emphasizing that neither “wants to meet for the sake of a meeting.”

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