"I'm much more confident about the settlement after the meeting". Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump said he feels "much more confident" of reaching a deal to end the war in Ukraine after talks on February 18 in Saudi Arabia between U.S. and Russian envoys.

Trump commented after the conclusion of talks in Riyadh between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other U.S. officials and a Russian delegation led by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

"I think I have the power to end this war,” he told reporters, speaking at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.

At the same time, the Republican said he was disappointed by the position of Ukraine, which was not invited to the negotiations. President Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier that Ukraine would not recognize the results of this meeting, and before that he called on the West not to negotiate without Kyiv's participation. "They [Ukraine] had three years to sit down at the negotiating table," Trump said.