Mike Waltz says US officials to visit Europe this week to discuss ending Ukraine war

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Less than a day before that announcement, US media reported that Donald Trump had had a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss steps towards a negotiated solution.

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00:00U.S. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz has said senior members of the administration

00:07will meet with European officials this week to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine.

00:12The push comes almost three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.

00:18Waltz said the Russian economy isn't doing well and that Trump is prepared to tax, to

00:23tariff, to sanction Moscow to get Putin to the negotiating table.

00:28Waltz also said the Trump administration is looking to use the meetings to begin talks

00:32on clawing back some of the U.S. assistance to Ukraine.

00:35He said European allies will also need to take a greater role in supporting Ukraine

00:40going forward.

00:42Trump said the U.S. is talking to Russia about Ukraine without Keefe's input, saying his

00:47administration has already had very serious discussions.

00:51That runs counter to the Biden administration's position that echoed Zelensky's call of nothing

00:56about Ukraine without Ukraine.

00:59I've had it.

01:00Let's just say I've had it.

01:02And I expect to have many more conversations.

01:05We have to get that war ended.

01:07It's going to end.

01:08And we have to get it ended.

01:09And we have to get it ended so it should have never happened, would have never happened

01:12if I was president.

01:15Vice President J.D. Vance will head to the Munich Security Conference later this week

01:19where President Volodymyr Zelensky will lead Ukraine's delegation.

01:24Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Trump's special envoy on

01:29Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg will also attend the Munich conference.

01:34On Wednesday, Hegseth will attend a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at the

01:38NATO headquarters in Brussels.

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