00:00U.S. President Donald Trump says Ukraine should make a deal to end the war with Russia because, quote, Russia is a very big power and they're not.
00:09This after a summit where Vladimir Putin was reported to have demanded more Ukrainian land.
00:13A source says after the two leaders met in Alaska on Friday, August 15, Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Putin had offered to stop most of the fighting if Kiev gave up all of Donetsk, a key area Russia wants.
00:27Zelensky rejected the demand.
00:29Trump also agrees with Putin that a peace deal should be sought without the prior ceasefire that Ukraine and its European allies had demanded.
00:36Zelensky, meanwhile, says Russia's unwillingness to pause the fighting would complicate efforts to forge a lasting peace.
00:43He says in a post, quote, stopping the killing is a key element of stopping the war.
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