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Oct 20, 2026 4:55 PM EDT

President Donald Trump said "it's time" for Ukraine to agree to a deal with Russia on Tuesday.

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The president is upping the pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to make a deal with his country's Russian invaders after relations between the two men soured again.

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"We want Zelenskyy to make a deal," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "We've given a lot to Ukraine. We've gotten absolutely nothing back except grief, death, tremendous monetary loss."

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He says if that doesn't happen, "I think it's going to be a very bad thing."

Watch Trump's full remarks in the Oval Office in the video below.

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He also claimed Europe is growing weary of the conflict, though European countries have been trying to offset any scaling back of U.S. supplies.

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