The president repeatedly said on the campaign trail that he would bring an end to the war in the first 24 hours of his second term.

US President Donald Trump admitted that in his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he did not make progress on the issue of ending the war in Ukraine, according to his statement while speaking to journalists at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a phone call earlier in the day with Vladimir Putin resulted in no progress at all on efforts to end the war in Ukraine, while a Kremlin aide said the Russian president reiterated that Moscow would keep pushing to solve the conflict's "root causes.