Trump shares what Putin allegedly told him about Ukraine

US President Donald Trump has claimed that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, told him that Moscow has been trying to find a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict for over a decade, and that Washington is more than welcome to compel Kiev to accept a negotiated solution.

Putin and Trump discussed Ukraine during a lengthy phone call last month, 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 told the audience at the America Business Forum in Miami on Wednesday.

“I got some of these things settled in an hour,” the US president added, referring to various international conflicts he claims to have resolved since taking office in January.