Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump’s claim he could ‘end war in one day’ dismissed by Putin’s UN ambassador

Russia ’s UN ambassador has responded to Donald Trump ’s claim that he could solve the war in Ukraine in one day if he is elected as US president.

At a CNN town hall in May 2023, he said: “They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians . I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.”

During last week’s debate with President Joe Biden, Mr Trump claimed, “If we had a real president, a president that knew — that was respected by Putin ... he would have never invaded Ukraine.”

Vassily Nebenzia told reporters on Monday that “the Ukrainian crisis cannot be solved in one day.”

It comes as Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban has urged Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky “to consider a quick ceasefire” during his first visit to Kyiv since the full-scale invasion.

During a press briefing in the Ukrainian capital, Mr Orban said: “I asked the president to think about whether we could approach this a little differently, to take a break, to cease fire, and then proceed with negotiations.”