President-Elect Donald Trump has called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, saying after meeting with world leaders in Paris that Ukraine and its president “would like to make a deal and stop the madness”.
“There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin,” Trump wrote in a post on social media, calling the war between Russia and Ukraine one that “should never have started, and could go on forever.”
Trump was in Paris on Saturday to attend the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral and met with world leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron.
The meeting marked Trump’s first in-person conversation with the Ukrainian president since he won the presidential election in November.
