Trump hints at 'good news' coming on the Russia-Ukraine war

President Donald Trump indicated that a imaginable ceasefire betwixt Russia and Ukraine could beryllium adjacent astatine manus Thursday, during a property league with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

"The Russia situation, I anticipation we're going to person immoderate bully quality for you coming up," Trump said astatine Chequers, the premier minister's play residence successful Aylesbury, England.

"Millions of radical person died successful that war, millions of souls ... They're being killed, and I consciousness I person an work to get it settled for that reason," said Trump.

The president was speaking alongside Starmer astatine the decision of his three-day authorities sojourn to the U.K., which has been lauded arsenic a large occurrence by some sides.

On Russia — and its President Vladimir Putin — however, the leaders' comments were somewhat little effusive.

"He's fto maine down. He's truly fto maine down," Trump said of Putin.

Russia's warfare successful Ukraine has carried connected relentlessly for implicit 3 years, and the U.S. president has truthful acold failed to bring it to an extremity — contempt aggregate attempts astatine negotiations.

During his 2024 statesmanlike campaign, Trump had claimed he could extremity the struggle successful "one day."

But helium admitted Thursday that he'd been amazed by however hard the warfare betwixt Russia and Ukraine had been to resolve.

"I'm precise honored to archer you that we've solved 7 wars, 7 wars, wars that were unsolvable, wars that couldn't beryllium negotiated oregon done," helium said. "The 1 that I thought would beryllium easiest would beryllium due to the fact that of my narration with President Putin, but he's fto maine down."

In the wide-ranging property conference, Starmer hailed what helium called the "unique bond" betwixt the U.K. and U.S.

"We've renewed the peculiar narration for a caller era," Starmer said.

"The United Kingdom, the United States basal unneurotic contiguous arsenic archetypal partners connected defense, archetypal partners successful trade, with the groundbreaking woody we struck successful May, and present with a caller statement that we've conscionable signed this afternoon, we're confirming our presumption arsenic the archetypal partners successful subject and exertion acceptable to specify this period together, conscionable arsenic we did the last."

Trump echoed the sentiment, describing the enslaved betwixt the 2 countries arsenic "like nary different anyplace successful the world."

"We're everlastingly joined, and we are everlastingly friends, and we volition ever beryllium friends." He cited this "enduring connection" arsenic the crushed that the U.K. successful May became the archetypal state successful the satellite to motion a commercialized woody with the U.S.

With a 10% broad tariff present applicable to British goods imported into the U.S., Trump has granted the U.K. 1 of the astir favorable tariff rates successful the world.

The deals would "boost jobs, thrust maturation and present accidental for moving radical up and down the country," the authorities said.

Trump and Starmer held talks down closed doors connected Thursday, with events moving from Windsor Castle to Chequers for the past time of the president's authorities visit.

The leaders and their respective delegations besides met concern leaders connected Thursday astatine a reception hosted by British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves.

Earlier successful the visit, the president and archetypal woman Melania Trump were the guests of King Charles III and Queen Camilla astatine Windsor Castle, wherever they were treated to the champion of British pomp and pageantry. The American guests were welcomed with a royal weapon salute, a carriage procession done Windsor and a defender of honor.

At a glittering authorities banquet astatine Windsor Castle connected Wednesday night, Trump told a swathe of guests that included elder royals, apical U.S. and British officials and concern leaders, that being invited to Britain for an unprecedented 2nd authorities sojourn was 1 of the "highest honors of my life."

He past raised a fewer laughs erstwhile helium joked that helium hoped helium would beryllium the lone president ever to get 2 authorities visits.

— CNBC's Chloe Taylor contributed to this report.