White House:
“He thinks that he is, increasingly frustrated with leaders of both countries. He wants to see a permanent ceasefire. I understand, Vladimir Putin this morning offered a temporary ceasefire. The president has made it clear he wants to see a permanent ceasefire first to stop the killing, stop the bloodshed. And while he remains optimistic, he can strike a deal.
He’s also, being realistic as well, and both leaders need to come to the table to negotiate their way out of this. And I do think that the president meeting with president Zelensky shows that he is exuding a lot of effort and time into this because he wants to be a peacemaker president, which he wasn’t his first term. He intends to do that again. And this is an incredibly difficult situation and conflict that president Trump inherited from president Biden who allowed this war to start in the first place, but he’s focused on solving this problem.”