President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's “not happy” with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, saying that Moscow's ongoing war in Ukraine is “killing a lot of people” on both sides. The president also acknowledged that his previous suggestions that he might be able to cajole Russia's president into bringing the fighting to a close and quickly ending the war in Ukraine has “turned out to be tougher.

The US president accused Vladimir Putin of distracting Washington with "bulls**t" in talks over Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had urged officials to intensify contact with the US.