“I think President Putin wants peace and President Zelensky wants peace and I want peace,” Mr Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Mr Trump’s call with the Russian president came just hours after Mr Zelensky warned “Putin is not preparing for peace” and called for unity from Ukraine’s allies.
Housing minister Matthew Pennycook was asked whether the UK agreed that a return to Ukraine’s pre-2014 border was unrealistic, and whether the British Government’s assessment was that it was “unrealistic to expect Ukraine to drive Russia out of its country”.
John Healey said that “Russia remains a threat well beyond Ukraine” after Donald Trump claimed that he and Vladimir Putin had agreed to start talks on ending the conflict.
The Associated Press reported that Mr Trump said he spent more than an hour on the phone with Mr Putin and “I think we’re on the way to getting peace”.
