Less than a day before that announcement, US media reported that Donald Trump had had a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss steps towards a negotiated solution.
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00:00U.S. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz has said senior members of the administration
00:07will meet with European officials this week to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine.
00:12The push comes almost three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.
00:18Waltz said the Russian economy isn't doing well and that Trump is prepared to tax, to
00:23tariff, to sanction Moscow to get Putin to the negotiating table.
00:28Waltz also said the Trump administration is looking to use the meetings to begin talks
00:32on clawing back some of the U.S. assistance to Ukraine.
00:35He said European allies will also need to take a greater role in supporting Ukraine
00:40going forward.
00:42Trump said the U.S. is talking to Russia about Ukraine without Keefe's input, saying his
00:47administration has already had very serious discussions.
00:51That runs counter to the Biden administration's position that echoed Zelensky's call of nothing
00:56about Ukraine without Ukraine.
00:59I've had it.
01:00Let's just say I've had it.
01:02And I expect to have many more conversations.
01:05We have to get that war ended.
01:07It's going to end.
01:08And we have to get it ended.
01:09And we have to get it ended so it should have never happened, would have never happened
01:12if I was president.
01:15Vice President J.D. Vance will head to the Munich Security Conference later this week
01:19where President Volodymyr Zelensky will lead Ukraine's delegation.
01:24Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Trump's special envoy on
01:29Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg will also attend the Munich conference.
01:34On Wednesday, Hegseth will attend a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at the
01:38NATO headquarters in Brussels.