The president repeatedly said on the campaign trail that he would bring an end to the war in the first 24 hours of his second term.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a phone call earlier in the day with Vladimir Putin resulted in no progress at all on efforts to end the war in Ukraine, while a Kremlin aide said the Russian president reiterated that Moscow would keep pushing to solve the conflict's "root causes.

The call with Vladimir Putin came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said publicly he wanted to discuss weapons supplies with President Trump.