Trump Walks Back His Promise on the War in Ukraine: ‘You’re Going to Have to Ask Russia’

The president’s first day in office has come and gone, and the war is still going.

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President Donald Trump already failed in his promise to end Russia’s war on Ukraine on Day One — and now he’s not even committing to it ending in the next year.

At the World Economic Forum on Thursday, a panelist asked him whether there would “be a peace agreement with Ukraine and Russia by” next year’s conference.

Trump was noncommittal.